Um programa de melhoria de estimativas em uma organização desenvolvedora de software

Abstract

The constant growth in size and complexity of today's software products forces software development organizations to continuously improve their project management processes. In this context, performing good estimation is vital to good project planning and successful schedule and cost commitments. The work reported here presents an estimation improvement program, performed inside a software development organization. This program used a well defined process, covering estimation for all phases of the software development life-cycle. The improvements proposed in this work are based on best practices found in the literature, and were validated using pilot projects, before being incorporated in the organization's softwaredevelopment processes. The results of this program will hopefully be useful to other organizationsinterested in improving their estimation processes.