TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of cost-overrun projects using financial data and software metrics
AU - Uwano, Hidetake
AU - Monden, Akito
AU - Kamei, Yasutaka
AU - Matsumoto, Ken Ichi
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - To clarify the characteristics of cost-overrun software projects, this paper focuses on the cost to sales ratio of software development, computed from financial information of a midsize software company in the embedded systems domain, and analyzes the correlation with outsourcing ratio as well as code reuse ratio and relative effort ratio per development phase. As a result, we found that the lower cost to sales ratio projects had the higher relative effort ratio in external design phase, which indicates that spending less effort in external design can cause decrease of profit. We also found that high outsourcing ratio projects had higher cost to sales ratio, and that projects having moderate code reuse ratio had lower and disperse cost to sales ratio, which suggests troubles in code reuse can damage the profit of a project.
AB - To clarify the characteristics of cost-overrun software projects, this paper focuses on the cost to sales ratio of software development, computed from financial information of a midsize software company in the embedded systems domain, and analyzes the correlation with outsourcing ratio as well as code reuse ratio and relative effort ratio per development phase. As a result, we found that the lower cost to sales ratio projects had the higher relative effort ratio in external design phase, which indicates that spending less effort in external design can cause decrease of profit. We also found that high outsourcing ratio projects had higher cost to sales ratio, and that projects having moderate code reuse ratio had lower and disperse cost to sales ratio, which suggests troubles in code reuse can damage the profit of a project.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856184041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84856184041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IWSM-MENSURA.2011.9
DO - 10.1109/IWSM-MENSURA.2011.9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856184041
SN - 9780769544977
T3 - Proceedings - Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011
SP - 227
EP - 232
BT - Proceedings - Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011
T2 - Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011
Y2 - 3 November 2011 through 4 November 2011
ER -