A Study on “Key Activities in Managing Software Project Effort”

Abstract

Accurate effort estimation is a crucial task for software business progression: for customers, acquiring software products or making project contracts for software implementation, accurate effort estimation enables adherence to schedule and budget without delay in deployment and introduction (Conte, et al., 1986; Sommer- ville, 2001). A software supplier organization strives to estimate the effort needed in building software as accurately as  possible to ensure the project’s budget and schedule, and the success of resource allocation.