From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Nov 5 07:11:51 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iA5DBpi24642 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:11:51 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iA5DBoI24634 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:11:50 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D057572D440; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:18:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28763-29; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:18:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 1BB4172D443; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:18:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: anyone work on a project that used cocomo to estimate schedule To: "Oracle Discussion List" Message-ID: From: Thomas Day Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:18:29 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on VA-FCH34/SRV/CSC(Release 6.0.3|September 26, 2003) at 11/05/2004 08:15:43 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 11953 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: tday6@csc.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: tday6@csc.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org I've used it. It works OK. In order to refine it's answers you actually have to "do" a substantial part of the product. Then you will know enough to tailor it properly. Just starting out with a typical Request For Work it can give you a first order estimate of the resources needed. "Ryan" @comcast.net> cc: Sent by: Subject: anyone work on a project that used cocomo to estimate schedule oracle-l-bounce 11/04/2004 10:22 PM Please respond to ryan_gaffuri How accurate is it for database development/modelling? Supposedly if tailored properly it works very well for software engineers http://sunset.usc.edu/research/COCOMOII/cocomo_main.html -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l