TY - GEN
T1 - The ROI of systems engineering
T2 - 2007 IEEE Conference on Exploring Quantifiable IT Yields, EQUITY 2007
AU - Boehm, Barry
AU - Valerdi, Ricardo
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper presents quantitative results on the return on investment of systems engineering (SE-ROI) from an analysis of the 161 software projects in the COCOMOII database. The analysis shows that, after normalizing for the effects of other cost drivers, the cost difference between projects doing a minimal job of software systems engineering - as measured by the thoroughness of its architecture definition and risk resolution - and projects doing a very thorough job was 18% for small projects and 92% for very large software projects as measured in lines of code.
AB - This paper presents quantitative results on the return on investment of systems engineering (SE-ROI) from an analysis of the 161 software projects in the COCOMOII database. The analysis shows that, after normalizing for the effects of other cost drivers, the cost difference between projects doing a minimal job of software systems engineering - as measured by the thoroughness of its architecture definition and risk resolution - and projects doing a very thorough job was 18% for small projects and 92% for very large software projects as measured in lines of code.
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U2 - 10.1109/equity.2007.14
DO - 10.1109/equity.2007.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450198978
SN - 9781424425372
T3 - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE Conference on Exploring Quantifiable IT Yields, EQUITY 2007
SP - 79
EP - 86
BT - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE Conference on Exploring Quantifiable IT Yields, EQUITY 2007
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 19 March 2007 through 21 March 2007
ER -