An empirical study of the Cobb-Douglas production function properties of software development effort

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1181-1188

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a   Rodger, James A ^b   Subramanian, Girish H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost models; Forecasting; Project management

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COST MODELS; FORECASTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 51449121471     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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