| Author | Message | ||
     Albert Meyn |
Dear All, I have a question regarding COCOMO. Given is the following situation: The company has invested a lot to optimize the project management and the requirement management. The productivity is increasing. Now the question is: How do we calibrate COCOMO to the new base level? I'm aware of some ppossibilities, which the COCOMO standard (as mentioned in the book chapter 4) offers: - Local calibration of the factor A - Local calibration of the factor B - user defined cost factors Does anybody have ever changed the values of the ratings for the standard cost factors? Which cost factor does adress the mentioned issues best? Are there any other possibilities? Thank you for your help, Albert Meyn | ||
| Mauricio Aguiar |
Albert, One possibility is to download CALICO - a free COCOMO calibration tool from Softstar Systems - http://www.softstarsystems.com/calico.htm You may also want to read my article on COCOMO II local calibration - http://sunset.usc.edu/events/2005/COCOMO/pages/program.html#Wednesday (look for "COCOMO II Local Calibration Using Function Points") Hope this helps. Regards, Mauricio. | ||
| Maxim Rusakov |
Albert, you also may consider using a commercial tools for effort estimation. Usually commercial tools have more parametrs in their model. So, it may better fit your enviroment. As far as I remember COCOMO was calibrated on not so many completed projects. Commercial tools are calibrated based on large dataset. Personally I have a very good experience with SEER SEM, they have easy to use tools that can be calibrated based on your input. best regards, Maxim | ||
| Albert Meyn Username: Albertmeyn Post Number: 28 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mauricio, Maxim, thank you for your input! Regards, Albert Meyn |
