Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Strategic factor markets: expectations, luck, and business strategy
Management Science
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
Software metrics: establishing a company-wide program
Software metrics: establishing a company-wide program
“Combining qualitative and quantitative methods information systems research: a case study"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Machine Learning Approaches to Estimating Software Development Effort
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
A field study of scale economies in software maintenance
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
How to Improve the Calibration of Cost Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Knowledge capability and maturity in software management
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on infomration systems: current issues and future changes
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Brains, Behavior and Robotics
Lessons Learned in Building a Corporate Metrics Program
IEEE Software
Implementing Effective Software Metrics Programs
IEEE Software
Leadership Challenges for the Future
IEEE Software
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and IT organizational impact
Perceptual Congruence and Systems Development Cost Estimation
Information Resources Management Journal
A decision model for managing software development projects
Information and Management
EC-Web'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on E-commerce and web technologies
Using time-driven activity-based costing to manage digital forensic readiness in large organisations
Information Systems Frontiers
Software Project Costing: Coupling CMMI and PMBOK into a Generic Costing Framework
International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
Elucidating the role of IT/IS assessment and resource allocation in IT/IS performance in hospitals
Information and Management
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This paper proposes the use of the Activity Based Costing (ABC) approach to software estimation. Like other more traditional approaches to software estimation, ABC provides man-day estimates. In addition, it also provides detailed costing information that is useful for management control and decision making. The paper shows how the ABC approach can be applied to software estimation by building an ABC model using data from twenty-two projects in a financial services firm. The model is then used for estimation, and comparisons between estimated and actual man-day are computed (variance analysis). The data generated by the model and from the variance analysis are useful for management control and decision making in areas such as resource allocation, outsourcing of specific development activities, and learning from adoption of new development tools and practices.