1. Supplementary Slides for
Software Engineering:
A Practitioner's Approach, 5/
e
copyright © 1996, 2001
R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc.
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2. Chapter 5
Software Project
Planning
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3. Software Project
Planning
The overall goal of project
planning is to establish a
pragmatic strategy for controlling,
tracking, and monitoring a
complex technical project.
Why?
So the end result gets done on
time, with quality!
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4. The Steps
t Scoping—understand the problem and
the work that must be done
t Estimation—how much effort? how
much time?
t Risk—what can go wrong? how can we
avoid it? what can we do about it?
t Schedule—how do we allocate
resources along the timeline? what are
the milestones?
t Control strategy—how do we control
quality? how do we control change?
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5. Write it
Down!
Project Scope Software
Estimates Project
Risks Plan
Schedule
Control strategy
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6. To Understand Scope ...
t Understand the customers needs
t understand the business context
t understand the project boundaries
t understand the customer’s motivation
t understand the likely paths for change
t understand that ...
Even when you understand,
nothing is guaranteed!
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7. Cost Estimation
project scope must be explicitly
defined
task and/or functional
decomposition is necessary
historical measures (metrics) are
very helpful
at least two different techniques
should be used
remember that uncertainty is
inherent
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8. Estimation Techniques
t past (similar) project experience
t conventional estimation techniques
¶ task breakdown and effort estimates
¶ size (e.g., FP) estimates
t tools (e.g., Checkpoint)
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9. Functional Decomposition
Stateme functional
perform
of Scope
nt a decomposition
"grammatical
parse"
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10. Creating a Task Matrix
Obtained from “process framework”
framework activities
application Effort required to
functions accomplish
each framework
activity for each
application
function
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11. Conventional Methods:
LOC/FP Approach
t compute LOC/FP using estimates of
information domain values
t use historical effort for the project
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12. Example: LOC Approach
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13. Example: FP
Approach
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14. Tool-Based Estimation
project characteristics
calibration factors
LOC/FP data
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15. Empirical Estimation
Models
General form:
exponent
effort = tuning coefficient * size
usually derived
as person-months empirically
of effort required derived
usually LOC but
may also be
function point
either a constant or
a number derived based
on complexity of project
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16. Estimation Guidelines
estimate using at least two techniques
get estimates from independent sources
avoid over-optimism, assume difficulties
you've arrived at an estimate, sleep on it
adjust for the people who'll be doing the
job—they have the highest impact
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17. The Make-Buy Decision
simple (0.30) $380,000
$450,000
difficult (0.70)
build
$275,000
minor changes
(0.40)
reuse
system X $310,000
simple (0.20)
major
changes
buy (0.60) $490,000
complex (0.80)
minor changes $210,000
contract (0.70)
$400,000
major changes (0.30)
without changes (0.60) $350,000
$500,000
with changes (0.40)
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18. Computing Expected
Cost
expected cost =
(path probability) x (estimated path cost)
i i
For example, the expected cost to build is:
expected cost build=
= 0.30($380K)+0.70($450K)
= $429 K
similarly,
expected cost reuse = $382K
expected cost buy = $267K
expected cost contr = $410K
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