An approach to estimating work effort for enterprise systems software projects

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-87

  Choi, J ^a   Ashokkumar, S ^a   Sircar, S ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COSMIC FFP; Cost estimation; Enterprise applications; Industrial applications; Project management; Project schedule estimation; Requirements specifications; Software size estimation; Use case points

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548031466     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517570601088356     Document Type: Article

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