The relationship between software development team size and software development cost

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-144

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a   Rodger, James A ^b  

^a Department of Information Systems ^*  (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SOFTWARES; ASSOCIATED SOFTWARES; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; DATA ENVELOPMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE BENCHMARKING STANDARDS GROUPS; LOG-LINEAR MODELS; MODEL TESTS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-PARAMETRIC; PRODUCTION ECONOMICS; PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL CHANGES; RETURNS TO SCALE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE EFFORTS; TEAM SIZES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 58849120645     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1435417.1435449     Document Type: Article

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