TY - GEN
T1 - The ROI of systems engineering
T2 - 17th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2007
AU - Boehm, Barry
AU - Valerdi, Ricardo
AU - Honour, Eric
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 COCOMO II 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 COCOMO II 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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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878047237
SN - 9781605601199
T3 - 17th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2007 - Systems Engineering: Key to Intelligent Enterprises
SP - 851
EP - 865
BT - 17th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2007 - Systems Engineering
Y2 - 24 June 2007 through 28 June 2007
ER -