February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 31m
English
book
Practical Software Estimation: Function Point Methods for Insourced and Outsourced Projects
by M. A. Parthasarathy
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Index
A
Acceptance test phase, 200
Actual Effort (Person Hours), as estimation unit, 16
Add elementary process, 79
Agile software projects
case study, 202–204
complex issues in, 199–200
project milestones in, 200–202
Albrecht, Allan, 52–55, 100–102
Algorithm-based estimation approach, 278–279
Analogy-based estimation approach, 278
Application maintenance contracts, 253–254
Application servers, 140
Applications
change management in, 171–172
components of, 75–76
estimating total cost of ownership, 273–274
estimation case study. See Invoicing system case study
functional and non-functional requirements of, 122–123
of insourcing IT environment, 235
maintenance contracts for, 253–254
in outsourcing IT environment, 237
scope ...
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