Volume 10 : Number 2 : Paper 3

December 2007 Regular Issue and Special Issue of Best Papers presented at CLEI 2006, Santiago, Chile
Title:
Competency Assessment: Integrating COCOMO II and People-CMM for estimation improvement

Authors and Affiliations:
Ricardo Colomo Palacios,
Angel Garcia Crespo,
Juan Miguel Gomez Berbis,
Marcos Ruano Mayoral, Depto. de Informatica, Univ. de Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Abstract:
Human factor is one of the most relevant and crucial aspects of software development projects management. Aiming at the performance improvement
for software processes in organizations, a new model has been developed to diagnose people related processes. This new model is People-CMM and represents a complementary solution to CMM. On the other hand, existing estimation models in Software Engineering perfectly integrate those aspects related to personnel


Received oct/07, Revised dec/07 , Editor: Mauricio Solar
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