Controlling the Chaos of Agile Development
Niklaus Wirth developed the Pascal programming language. He also wrote a book titled "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs." There are things that could be said about the language and the book but the critical message at this time is that data … [Continue reading]
There are 21 effort multipliers used by the estimating model. 16 are historically COCOMO effort multipliers while the other 5 are historically CORADMO effort multipliers. CORADMO effort multipliers are used a little differently from CORADMO ones. … [Continue reading]
Transforming Size into Schedule and Effort uses 26 cost drivers in the equations that are used to estimate effort and schedule. The diagram above shows how these cost drivers are divided. There are 5 scale factors. The scale factors influence the … [Continue reading]
There is a story that illustrates the relationship between product size and the time that it take to develop it. In the truly early days of computers, they were programmed using Basic Assembly Language (BAL). If you wanted to add a couple of numbers … [Continue reading]
In 2011, I wrote my thesis describing an approach to estimating agile projects early in the software development life cycle. Primarily, the thesis was concerned with sizing software. However, in one of the case studies, I described how effort and … [Continue reading]