short papers
This short paper discusses how ISBSG data is used by leading industry experts, including certified Software Cost Estimators, to estimate the cost of software development projects. The paper discusses the difficulties and challenges inherent in software project cost estimation. It also explores how estimation has evolved in Agile contexts. A detailed example demonstrates the steps taken to make a cost estimation for a sample project.
Learn how Project Delivery Rate can be estimated using software and team sizes, using the ISBSG book, “Practical Software Project Estimation”.
This short paper examines whether there have been more New Development or Enhancement type projects submitted to the ISBSG Repository. It investigates whether the median project size for these projects has increased or decreased over time.
The short paper analyses the effort spent on general and specific software maintenance and support activities.
How would you like to have your project’s productivity benchmarked against the ISBSG Repository? This short paper explains how you can receive a free benchmark report, when you submit project data to the ISBSG repository.
This short paper compares the productivity of projects that have different application types, from the ISBSG Repository. The application types are: Business Applications, Real-Time Applications, Mathematically-Intensive Application and Infrastructure Software.
The differences between the Agile concept of velocity and the traditional idea of delivery speed is discussed. The results from analyzes of Velocity (Delivery Speed) of recent, Java projects in the ISBSG repository is displayed. In particular, the Delivery Speed of projects within different functional-size groupings is considered.
‘Cost per Function Point’ is an industry best practice to ensure that both the customer and the supplier benefit from high productivity. This short paper analyzes the cost and functional size of projects from the ISBSG Repository.
This short paper determines whether there are key factors that influence the productivity and delivery speed of CRM projects.
This short paper examines a high-level business case to to rebuild a Cobol legacy application in Java. ISBSG Data, for similar Java projects, provides metrics for: cost, effort, maintenance and support. This information is used as the basis for the business case.
