Reading

Sommerville, Chapter 23

Objectives

  1. Understand the fundamentals of software costing and factors that affect software price
  2. Know the sections typically included in a software project plan (for plan-driven development)
  3. Understand how project scheduling is accomplished with task / milestone graphs and activity bar charts (Gantt charts)
  4. Understand the “planning game” used with agile methods
  5. Understand how COCOMO II models are used for software cost estimation

Resources

Further Information

Overhead costs