Module 6 - Project Management.pptVIP

* * PowerPoint Presentation for Dennis Haley Wixom, Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition Copyright 2003 ? John Wiley Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 - * Software cost components Hardware and software costs. Travel and training costs. Effort costs (the dominant factor in most projects) The salaries of engineers involved in the project; Social and insurance costs. Effort costs must take overheads into account Costs of building, heating, lighting. Costs of networking and communications. Costs of shared facilities (e.g library, staff restaurant, etc.). PowerPoint Presentation for Dennis Haley Wixom, Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition Copyright 2003 ? John Wiley Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 - * A measure of the rate at which individual engineers involved in software development produce software and associated documentation. Not quality-oriented although quality assurance is a factor in productivity assessment. Essentially, we want to measure useful functionality produced per time unit. Software productivity PowerPoint Presentation for Dennis Haley Wixom, Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition Copyright 2003 ? John Wiley Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 - * Size related measures based on some output from the software process. This may be lines of delivered source code, object code instructions, etc. Function-related measures based on an estimate of the functionality of the delivered software. Function-points are the best known of this type of measure. Productivity measures PowerPoint Presentation for Dennis Haley Wixom, Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition Copyright 2003 ? John Wiley Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 - * Estimating the size of the measure (e.g. how many function points). Estimating the total number of programmer months that have elapsed. Estimating contractor productivity (e.g. documentation team) and incorporating this estimate in overall estimate. Measurement problems PowerPoint Presentation for Dennis H