NUR SYUHADA BINTI AZHAR (B032010378) BITI

BITP2213 ASSIGNMENT 3

Q: Choose a software estimation technique, from the lecture notes Week 5, that is suitable for
the following scenario, justifying your choice compared to the other techniques.

You are a member of a 30 person systems development department in a new IT services

company. The IT Manager is a very experienced professional with many years' experience of
leading IT change and new product development. You are one of four IT Project Managers in
the department. The rest of the IT department is made up of people from a variety of other IT
companies who have been recruited for their knowledge of programming, database design
and networking. Your first assignment is a project to develop a new online booking system
for a transport company. This is your biggest and newest client. The project will involve
elements of design, coding, database creation and connectivity over a number of remote sites.
You have been asked to estimate the effort involved in the project so a successful and
profitable bid can be made.

The software estimation technique that I chose is Expert Judgement. The reason I
choose this technique is because the project needs to become successful and profitable for
both developers and customers. With the experience from the expert IT Manager and from
the other department that are skilled and knowledgeable in programming, database and
networking, we can use the Expert Judgement technique.
This technique includes consulting several experts on a proposed software
development techniques and the application domain. Each of them will estimate the project
cost. Those estimates will then be compared and discussed and the process will iterate until
an agreed estimate is reached.
Expert judgement uses the experience and knowledge of experts to estimate the cost
of the project. Compared to other techniques, this technique is relatively cheap and it can be
accurate if the experts have direct experience of similar systems. One of the advantages of
this technique compared to others is the experience that experts bring from past projects to
the current or proposed project. Experts also can take into account in project impacts caused
by emerging technologies, applications, and languages.