A Software Manpower Profile for Software Development Life Cycle


The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 1123-1132, Oct. 2004
10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11.5.1123,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Successful project planning relies on a good estimation of the manpower required to complete a project. The good estimation can be derived from Rutnam's Rayleigh Model or Phillai et al's Gamma Model. These models only can be applied for the projects which the need of manpower is increased exponentially and the highest of manpower is required at the end of development phase. However, in a practical project, most manpower is required during development phase and a small amount of manpower is assigned during maintenance phase. In addition, the Waterfall Model and Unified Process only can be adopted for development phase. So the current development environments cannot be adopted into the existing manpower distribution models which the highest manpower is required at the end of development phase. This paper suggests an appropriate model for development phase to solve this problem. First, the appropriate manpower distribution for development phase of the Waterfall model was derived from Putnam's manpower distribution and then manpower distribution of development phase was derived for Unified Process. After comparing the required manpower of two processes, total manpower distribution is similar each other even though the required manpower and task is different for each point of development phase. From this result, a unified model is derived and it can be applied for both development processes.


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[IEEE Style]
S. U. Lee, "A Software Manpower Profile for Software Development Life Cycle," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1123-1132, 2004. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11.5.1123.

[ACM Style]
Sang Un Lee. 2004. A Software Manpower Profile for Software Development Life Cycle. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 11, 5, (2004), 1123-1132. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11.5.1123.