Mejora de los procesos de estimación de costos de software. Caso del sector de software de Barranquilla

Abstract

Summary-The present paper is the result of the following investigation: “Design of a model to improve the cost estimation processes for software developing companies”. It is presented a revision of the literature at an international level for identifying tendencies and methods for more accurate software cost estimations. Through the Delphi predictive method, a group of experts in the field of software development in Barranquilla qualified and assessed from the probability of occurrence five realistic estimation scenarios. A completely random experiment was designed whose results point to two scenarios statistically similar in a qualitative manner, from that a three agents model was built: Methodology, capacity of the work team and technological products; each of those with three categories of fulfilment to achieve more precise estimations.