Popular Estimation Methods

Popular Estimation Methods for Software Engineering:

• Analysis Effort method


• COCOMO






• COSYSMO


• Function Point Analysis


• Parametric Estimating


• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)


• SLIM


• The Planning Game (from Extreme Programming)


• Weighted Micro Function Points (WMFP)


• Wideband Delphi


• Evidence-based Scheduling Refinement of typical agile estimating techniques using minimal measurement and total time accounting.


• PRICE Systems Founders of Commercial Parametric models that estimates the scope, cost, effort and schedule for software projects.


• Proxy-based estimating (PROBE) (from the Personal Software Process)


• SEER-SEM Parametric Estimation of Effort, Schedule, Cost, Risk. Mimimum time and staffing concepts based on Brooks's law