The paper tackles the topic of determining the cost of innovation in software development projects. Innovation can be achieved either in a planned or unplanned manner. The paper approaches the scenarios were innovation is planned for. As a starting point an innovative software development project is analyzed. The project is depicted step by step as it was implemented, from inception to delivery...

UML-based object-oriented metrics are fully capable of software measurement. Many researchers have produced effort estimation models for software systems. The estimation effort in the early stages of software development is one of the most important problems faced by software developers and managers. UML related information can be used as an accurate source for effort estimation. In this paper,...

Recently the Software Quality Improvement (SQI) Project has been formed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). SQI will enable and promote software best practices, and leverage JPL experience in software engineering in support of major software projects, throughout the entire software life-cycle. The goal of the SQI Project is to establish an operational software improvement program that re...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is now being increasingly used as a technology tool to assist design professions in conceiving, designing, constructing, and operating the built environment in many countries. The BIM model provides design professions with the framework to perform exercises in design, programming, cost and value management, and concept energy analysis, in order to achieve th...