Pricing via Functional Size - A Case Study of a Company's Portfolio of 77 Outsourced Projects

Pricing via Functional Size - A Case Study of a Company's Portfolio of 77 Outsourced Projects

Huijgens, H.K.M. (TU Delft Software Engineering; Goverdson)
Gousios, G. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
van Deursen, A. (TU Delft Software Technology)

Software Technology

2015-11-05

A medium-sized west-European telecom company experienced a worsening trend in performance, indicating that the organization did not learn from history, in combination with much time and energy spent on preparation and review of project proposals. In order to create more transparency in the supplier proposal pro-cess a pilot was started on Functional Size Measurement pricing (FSM-pricing). In this paper we evaluate the implementation of FSM-pricing in the software engineering domain of the company, as an instrument useful in the context of software management and supplier proposal pricing. We analyzed 77 finalized software engineering projects, covering 14 million Euro project cost and a project portfolio size of more than 5,000 function points. We found that a statistical, evidence-based pricing approach for software engineering, as a single instrument (without a connec-tion with expert judgment), can be used in the subject companies to create cost transparency and performance management of software project portfolios.

FSM-pricing
Function Point Analysis
Functional Size Measurement
Software Economics
Software Pricing

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:714999f7-d45f-47d8-935c-c65bdab343e1

https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2015.7321211

IEEE

9781467378994

2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2015 - Proceedings, 2015-November

ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2015, 2015-10-22 → 2015-10-23, Beijing, China

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conference paper

© 2015 H.K.M. Huijgens, G. Gousios, A. van Deursen