Development effort is an undeniable part of the project management which considerably influences the success of project. Inaccurate and unreliable estimation of effort can easily lead to the failure of project. Due to the special specifications, accurate estimation of effort in the software projects is a vital management activity that must be carefully done to avoid from the unforeseen results....

The paper aims to provide for the improvement of software estimation research through a new regression model. The study design of the paper is organized as follows. Evaluation of estimation methods based on historical data sets requires that these data sets be representative for current or future projects. For that reason the data set for software cost estimation model the International Softwar...

Expert-based estimation is the most common and preferred method to estimate the effort for software development project because it is fast, less expensive and reasonably accuracy. Expert software developers use his intuition and experience during effort estimation task. Estimation by analogy of features is also used to compare the new feature to similar in past development. This paper extends r...

the increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (it)and the high percentage of the it investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment init. there are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

In this paper we present findings from our empirical study of software process improvement (SPI) implementation. We aim to provide SPI practitioners with insight into designing appropriate SPI implementation initiatives in order to achieve better results. Thirty-four interviews were conducted with Australian practitioners. Three SPI implementation issues were investigated: reasons for embarking...

Software estimation cost drivers are in many cases abstract concepts that are better estimated by breaking them down in a number of second– level aspects. This raises the need for inquiry regarding the most appropriate aggregation processes for them, since they significantly impact in the final cost estimates. Recent research on aggregation operator design has resulted in a number of families o...

Analogy-based estimation seems be a very promising estimation methods. A large Norwegian IT consulting company is going to use analogy-based method for further effort estimation. Thus, a historical project database must be built. Several issues have come up when discussing the feasibility of building such a project database. One challenging issue is which projects should be involved in the data...