Software Cost Estimation is Like the Bowl Championship Series Ratings

William Sanders — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:56:20 +0000

Know your college football? Hmmm, pick a year and name the eventual NCAA football champion.

2008-Florida? 1986-Penn State? 1962-USC? No, No, and No!

No matter what year you selected you were wrong! The NCAA does not formally determine a champion for this category. But, since a gazillion dollars depends upon those bragging rights – the Bowl Champion Series (BCS) was invented. And like a software estimate – it’s been almost as popular!

Is it Getting More Difficult to Estimate Software Size

William Sanders — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:14:50 +0000

I can clearly remember that day I arrived at work – towards the end of the year 2003 – it was easily before 6am. I was leading a small team tasked with prototyping a test environment for a NASA proposal. I stood there amazed as I watched my two programmers demonstrate a completely reengineered satellite simulation environment. Wait – let me be clear – within only a few days – they rewrote close to 30,000 lines of FORTRAN and another 4,000 lines of assembly code. How did they do it? They called it “goop.” “The hand cleaner?” I asked – rather befuddled. No, they were referring a new development language by LabVIEW (National Instruments) called “GOOP” – short for Graphical Object Oriented Programming.

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Software Cost Estimation is Like the Bowl Championship Series Ratings

Is it Getting More Difficult to Estimate Software Size