Because Effort Matters!

Frank Zickert () and Roman Beck ()

Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, 2010, vol. 2, issue 3, 165-173

Abstract: Project effort is critical for the success of software development projects. It has a major impact on whether constraints in time and budget can be complied with. But although requirements affect project effort, requirements engineering (RE) methods are not capable of assessing project effort. In this paper, we present our mapping model for assessing project effort (MMAPE). MMAPE incorporates into RE the assessment of project effort resulting from requirements for software development projects. It maps semantics of the RE method KAOS onto structures that are counted in function point analyses. We applied MMAPE in a case study on a software development project within a large financial institution. The validity of MMAPE is supported, since we found throughout consistent statements between information provided by MMAPE and data gathered from the case. Copyright Gabler Verlag 2010

Keywords: Requirements engineering; Project effort; KAOS; Function Point Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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