PROGRAMMER AND ANALYST TIME/COST ESTIMATION.

Author List: Benbasat, Izak; Vessey, Iris;

MIS Quarterly, 1980, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 31-43.

The ability to estimate the personnel time and costs required for the completion of programming and systems projects is an important managerial tool for the information systems department. This article presents a survey of the estimation techniques found in the literature by describing each technique and discussing its strengths and weaknesses. Some empirical evidence on how the various program and programmer/analyst characteristics affect project time and cost are also reported.

Keywords: Systems development; time and cost estimation

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#276	0.226	satisfaction information systems study characteristics data results using user related field survey empirical quality hypotheses important success various indicate tested
#261	0.223	software development maintenance case productivity application tools systems function tool engineering projects effort code developed applications analysis estimation methodology methods
#151	0.167	costs cost switching reduce transaction increase benefits time economic production transactions savings reduction impact services reduced affect expected optimal associated
#297	0.142	programming program programmers pair programs pairs software development problem time language application productivity best nominal languages programmer generators working reduces
#272	0.076	requirements analysts systems elicitation techniques analysis process technique understanding determination analyst acquisition interview development used semantic results knowledge structured effectiveness