Introduction
An objective cost model is necessary for planning and executing software projects. A cost model provides a framework for communicating business decisions among the stakeholders of a software effort; it supports contract negotiations, process improvement analysis, tool purchases, architecture changes, component make/buy tradeoffs, and several other return-on-investment decisions. This course provides the student with a through introduction to software estimation and to industry standard tools, like COCOMOII, used in cost estimation. Cross-listed with CpE533.
Teacher
David Pfeffer
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Email: dpfeffer@stevens.edu
Education
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Honors; Minor in Law and Public Policy
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
4.0 GPA; Graduate Certificates in Computer Systems, Databases & Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Computing, Quantitative Software Engineering, Service Oriented Computing
Professional Societies
Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Courses
CS 521 TCP/IP Networking
CS 570 Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms
CS 465 Selected Topics in Computer Science
SSW 810 Selected Topics in Systems Centric Software Engineering