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Estimating Software Costs, 2nd Edition
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Estimating Software Costs, 2nd Edition

by Capers Jones
May 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
644 pages
19h 7m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Chapter 5Sources of Error in Software Cost Estimation

One of the first questions software project managers ask is how accurate the software cost-estimating tools are. That question is surprisingly difficult to answer, since accuracy can be judged only in the context of precisely measured software projects. Most companies, universities, and government agencies do not have historical data that is precise enough to be used to judge the relative accuracy of software cost-estimation tools. Surprisingly, the accuracy of some software cost-estimating tools is much higher than the accuracy of historical data!

Indeed, as determined by performing assessment and benchmark studies, the historical cost data for an average software project is only about ...

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