Software Engineering, 10th Edition

23 Project planning

Objectives

The objective of this chapter is to introduce project planning, scheduling, and cost estimation. When you have read the chapter, you will:

• understand the fundamentals of software costing and the factors that affect the price of a software system to be developed for external clients;

• know what sections should be included in a project plan that is created within a plan-driven development process;

• understand what is involved in project scheduling and the use of bar charts to present a project schedule;

• have been introduced to agile project planning based on the “planning game”;

• understand cost estimation techniques and how the COCOMO II model can be used for software cost estimation.

Contents

1. 23.1 Software pricing ...