COCOMO Suite Methodology and Evolution
BARRY W. BOEHM, Ricardo Valerdi, Jo Ann Lane, Allen W. Brown · 2005
n the late 1970s and the early 1980s assoftware engineering was starting totake shape, software managers found theyneeded a way to estimate the cost of soft-ware development and to explore optionswith respect to software project organiza-tion, characteristics, and cost/schedule.Along with a number of commercial andproprietary cost/schedule estimationmodels, one of the answers to this needwas the open-internal Constructive CostModel (COCOMO). This and other mod-els allowed users to