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Based on the empirical analysis of data contained in the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) repository, this paper presents software engineering project duration models based on project effort. Duration models are built for the entire dataset and for subsets of projects developed for personal computer, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Duration models are also constructed for projects requiring fewer than 400 person-hours of effort and for projects requiring more than 400 person-hours of effort. The usefulness of adding the maximum number of assigned resources as a second independent variable to explain duration is also analyzed. The opportunity to build duration models directly from project functional size in function points is investigated as well.

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  1. École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Pierre Bourque & Alain Abran

  2. Bell Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Serge Oligny

  3. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Bertrand Fournier

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Funding for this research was partially provided by Bell Canada and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors.

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Bourque, P., Oligny, S., Abran, A. et al. Developing Project Duration Models in Software Engineering. J Comput Sci Technol 22, 348–357 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-007-9051-5

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