Effort Estimation
Once you have the size estimate in hand, you can move to the second estimation step—deriving the effort estimate. Although the estimate is not strictly necessary for estimating a software schedule, you'll need an effort estimate in order to know how many people to put on your project; and having an effort estimate makes it easy to derive the schedule estimate.
Deriving the effort estimate is a straightforward process. Here are some of the ways you can convert a size estimate into an effort estimate:
Use estimation software to create an effort estimate directly from the size estimate.
Use the schedule tables in Tables Table 8-8 through Table 8-10 to convert a size estimate in lines of code to an effort estimate.
Use your organization's ...
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