SSE4300 SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Ikhwan Salihin Bin Khawari 196553

Madam Ainita Ban 17 March 2020

Class Exercise
1. Consider a database system needed for an office automation project. The requirements
documents shows 4 modules needed:

Sizes are estimated as follows:

Data entry - 0.6 KDSI

Data update - 0.6 KDSI

Query - 0.8 KDSI

Report generator- 1.0 KDSI

3.0 KDSI
The project is judged to be organic and the project manager rates project details as follows all others
are nominal (1.0):

Characteristic level

Product Complexity high 1.15

Storage constraint high 1.06

Applications Experience low 1.13

Programmer capabilities low 1.17

a) Identify the person-months for the project

b) What is the development time?

c) How many people should we hire?

Answers

Basic COCOMO

(Organic)

a) Person month for the project

Effort = ( 1.15 * 1.06 * 1.13 * 1.17 ) * 2.4 * ( 3.0 ) ^ 1.05

Effort = 13.12

b) TDEV = 2.5 * 13.12 (E) ^ 0.38 = 6.65 Months

c) How many people should we hire = E / TDEV = 13.12 / 6.65 = 1.97

2 Person should be hired

Intermediate COCOMO

(Organic)

a) Person month for the project

Effort = ( 1.15 * 1.06 * 1.13 * 1.17 ) * 3.2 * ( 3.0 ) ^ 1.05

Effort = 16.33

b) TDEV = 2.5 * 13.12 (E) ^ 0.38 = 7.23 Months

c) How many people should we hire = E / TDEV = 16.33 / 7.23 = 2.26

3 Person should be hired