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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Using COCOMO to estimate development schedules
Keywords: COCOMO, software development
Message-ID: <429@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 17:44:14 GMT
References: <351@tahoma.UUCP>
Reply-To: shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Organization: Gould CSD, San Diego
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In article <351@tahoma.UUCP> lrm5110@tahoma.UUCP (Larry R. Masden) writes:
>I've seen references to a method of estimating software
>development schedules and costs called COCOMO.  I'm interested,
>and I would appreciate some good references or brief descriptions 
>of the system.

The primary reference to COCOMO is the book by its originator:

     Barry W. Boehm
     _Software Engineering Economics_
     Prentice-Hall, 1981
     ISBN 0-13-822122-7

I have seen commercial software implementing the COCOMO calculations,
but do not have a reference at hand.

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Michael Shapiro, Gould/General Systems Division (soon to be Encore)
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