
SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT 213
Estimation of Development Effort
Organic: Effort = 2.4 (KLOC)
1.05
PM
Semi-detached: Effort = 3.0 (KLOC)
1.12
PM
Embedded: Effort = 3.6 (KLOC)
1.20
PM
Figure 9.11 (a) shows a plot of the estimated effort versus the size for various
product sizes.
FIGURE 9.11 (a) Effort Versus Size
From Figure 9.11 (a), we can observe that the effort is almost linearly
proportional to the size of the software product.
Estimation of Development Time
Organic: T
dev
= 2.5 (Effort)
0.38
Months
Semi-detached: T
dev
= 2.5 (Effort)
0.35
Months
Embedded: T
dev
= 2.5(Effort)
0.32
Months
Figure 9.11 (b) shows ...