Computer Science Department
Colloquium
On Time? Within Budget? High Quality?
An Exploration of Software Cost and Effort Estimation Modeling
presented by
Dr. Wayne M. Zage
Software is often delivered late, over budget and/or with unacceptable defect rates. Practitioners use a variety of approaches to obtain early estimates of the effort and cost required to develop a proposed object, often with limited success. We will review some of the factors that are included in effort estimation models, and then present a demonstration of the COCOMO II software effort estimation tool available at Ball State.
3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, 1999 Refreshments will be served.