An Introduction to Software Cost Estimation
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Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.58012/d0h3-c717Listen
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Abstract
Software cost estimation is an important first step when beginning a project. It addresses questions regarding budget, staffing, scheduling, and determining if the current environment will support the project. In this SEI podcast, Anandi Hira, a data scientist on the SEI’s Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis team sits down with Bill Nichols, principal engineer and lead of the SEI Data Science team, to discuss software cost estimation including various metrics, best practices, and common challenges when developing or building a model.
About the Speaker
Anandi Hira
Anandi Hira leads research to advance the state of the art in software cost estimation and supports programs with the resulting estimation and measurement processes in her current role at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Her most recent research objective is to develop a new, innovative, capability-based …
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