Chapter 5. Estimates and Metrics for UML-Based Projects

Most of us managers are prone to one failing: A tendency to manage people as though they were modular components.

DeMarco and Lister [1987]

We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something.

—Elton Trueblood

Putting This Chapter in Perspective

This chapter discusses the important issues of measurements and estimates in UML-based software projects. Starting with an argument for the need to make good estimates, and continuing on to discuss how good metrics make good estimates, this chapter delves into the importance of these measures and estimates in improving the quality of project models and processes. We also discuss the technical ...

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