Cost Models
- Estimating a project's cost can be very difficult
- Organisational experience plays a major role
- Cost estimates start from code estimates
- Code estimates can be measured in
- Size (e.g. lines of code)
- Function points (e.g. queries, screens, tables, ...)
- Object points
- Constructive estimation techniques (like COCOMO II) exist, but
require organisation and project-specific calibration