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A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem
Abstract
Application software development has been an area of organizational effort that has not been amenable to the normal managerial and cost controls. Instances of actual costs of several times the initial budgeted cost, and a time to initial operational capability sometimes twice as long as planned are more often the case than not.
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- Authors
- Putnam, L. H.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Published
- 1978-07
- Volume
- SE-4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 345-361
- ISSN
- 0098-5589 (ISSN-L)
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- W2081004173
- Cited by
- 800
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 41.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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