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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 12Software Technology Adjustment Factors

Once we have completed the administrative, sizing, and chart of accounts selection aspects of our estimate, we are ready to deal with one of the most important of all estimating tasks, which is that of dealing with software technology adjustment factors.

Here the commercial estimating tools really come into their own, because knowledge of how any particular tool, method, programming language, or skill set can affect the outcome of a software project is obviously a job for a rule-based expert system, where the rules themselves are derived from empirical data taken from hundreds, or even thousands, of software projects.

Estimating tool vendors also need active consulting and research groups in ...

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