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From: simpson@minotaur.uucp (Scott Simpson)
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Subject: Re: Using COCOMO to estimate development schedules
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Date: 27 Mar 89 20:14:49 GMT
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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.

I don't think Barry reads netnews so I'll answer it for him.  COCOMO
(COst COnstructive MOdel) was written about by Dr. Barry Boehm in the
book Software Engineering Economics published in 1981 by Prentice Hall
(ISBN 0-13-822122-7).  Barry is the Chief Scientist of the Defense
Systems Group here at TRW.  There are some computer programs out there
that implement the COCOMO model.  I know of one from the now defunct
Wang Institute of Graduate Studies called wicomo and there are others.
	Scott Simpson
	TRW Space and Defense Sector
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