Cost Planning in Development Environments Organization Oriented Software

• Monalessa Perini Barcellos UFRJ
• Ana Regina Rocha UFRJ
• Guilherme Horta Travassos UFRJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2004.16209

Abstract

Delivering a quality software product with expected cost and on time is today a great challenge for the organizations. These factors increase organizations interest development software projects costs estimation and control. In the last decades a lot of researches have been accomplished aiming the development of cost estimation models to produce estimations near by projects’ real cost. Knowledge Management concepts using have been efficient to support cost planning. This paper describes an approach for projects Cost Planning used by an Enterprise-Oriented Software Development Environment. The approach is based on standards such as NBR ISO 10006, ISO/IEC DTR 16326, in the guide PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), inconcepts of Knowledge Management and parametric models COCOMO II and Function Point Analysis. A tool (CustPlan) developed to support such approach is also presented.

Keywords: Estimates, Knowledge Management, Time Management, Costs Management

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