Understanding and controlling software costs

摘要: A discussion is presented of the two primary ways understanding software costs. The black-box or influence-function approach provides useful experimental and observational insights on relative productivity quality leverage various management, technical, environmental, personnel options. glass-box cost distribution helps identify strategies for integrated improvement programs using such structures as value chain opportunity tree. individual improving are identified. Issues related to costs controlling them examined discussed. It pointed out that a good framework techniques exists budgets, schedules, work completed, but great deal further progress needed provide an overall set planning control covering product qualities end-user system objectives. >