Software project management: the manager's view
Communications of the AIS
Everyone's watching: the remarkably public reorganization of the Nevada department of motor vehicles
Annals of cases on information technology
COMPSAC '00 24th International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Hypermedia Systems Development Practices: A Survey
IEEE Software
Developing project duration models in software engineering
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
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Improving software productivity, shortening schedules or time to market, and improving quality are prominent topics in software journals in both contributed articles and advertising copy. Unfortunately, most of these articles and advertisements have dealt with software schedules, productivity, or quality factors in abstract terms. Now we can measure these factors with reasonable accuracy and collect empirical data on both average and best-in-class results. We are particularly interested in the wide performance gaps between laggards, average enterprises, and industry leaders, as well as differences among the various software domains. The function-point metric lets us establish a meaningful database of software performance levels. A simple algorithm raises function points to a total to obtain a useful first-order schedule estimate