Web Cost Estimation, Productivity Assessment and Benchmarking

Abstract Effort estimation, productivity assessment and benchmarking are essential elements to the effective management of Web projects. Unfortunately, they are not used effectively by a large number of Web companies, contributing to projects that are late and over budget. The goals of tutorial are to present these topics and how to apply them in practice. It provides an introduction and motivation for Web cost estimation, productivity assessment and benchmarking and then covers cost estimation techniques, Web sizing, estimation accuracy assessment, productivity measurement principles, productivity assessment of Web projects and benchmarking. Where possible, material is improved with real industrial case studies of real effort models and productivity baselines. The tutorial is targeted at researchers and practitioners who are interested in learning more about Web cost estimation, productivity assessment and benchmarking. The intended audience does not need to have prior knowledge or experience of Web cost estimation or productivity assessment and benchmarking. This tutorial has been successfully presented at ICWE’05 and ICWE’06.