CMU-ISRI-07-111
Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University



CMU-ISRI-07-111

Characteristics that Make One Estimation
Technically Better than Others

Arunkumar Jayaraman

May 2007

CMU-ISRI-07-111.pdf


Keywords:COCMO estimation, Use Case Point estimation, Expert Judgment estimation, Wide Band Delphi estimation


The variety of software projects being carried out today is enormous. Some of them succeed while others fail. One key reason for failure of projects is lack of proper estimation or hte use of inappropriate estimation techniques. While there are many estimation techniques developed for project, each of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. No estimation technique can be considered a silver bullet for all the projects.

13 pages


Return to: SCS Technical Report Collection
School of Computer Science homepage

This page maintained by [email protected]