Pricing via Functional Size - A Case Study of a Company's Portfolio of 77 Outsourced Projects

2015 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) Pub Date : 2015-11-09 DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2015.7321211

Hennie Huijgens, Georgios Gousios, A. Deursen

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A medium-sized west-European telecom company experienced a worsening trend in performance, indicating that the organization did not learn from history, in combination with much time and energy spent on preparation and review of project proposals. In order to create more transparency in the supplier proposal process a pilot was started on Functional Size Measurement pricing (FSM-pricing). In this paper we evaluate the implementation of FSM-pricing in the software engineering domain of the company, as an instrument useful in the context of software management and supplier proposal pricing. We analyzed 77 finalized software engineering projects, covering 14 million Euro project cost and a project portfolio size of more than 5,000 function points. We found that a statistical, evidence-based pricing approach for software engineering, as a single instrument (without a connection with expert judgment), can be used in the subject companies to create cost transparency and performance management of software project portfolios.

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基于功能规模的定价——一家公司77个外包项目的案例研究

一家中等规模的西欧电信公司的业绩出现了恶化的趋势，这表明该组织没有从历史中吸取教训，并且花费了大量的时间和精力来准备和审查项目提案。为了在供应商提案过程中创造更多的透明度，我们开始了功能尺寸测量定价(FSM-pricing)的试点。在本文中，我们评估了fsm定价在公司软件工程领域的实施，作为软件管理和供应商建议定价的有用工具。我们分析了77个最终确定的软件工程项目，涵盖了1400万欧元的项目成本和超过5000个功能点的项目组合规模。我们发现一个统计的，基于证据的软件工程定价方法，作为一个单一的工具(没有与专家判断的联系)，可以在主题公司中使用，以创建软件项目组合的成本透明度和绩效管理。

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