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Title:	A software cost estimation model for government projects
Authors:	Rianti Rozalin (P85964)
Supervisor:	Zulkefli Mansor, Dr.
Keywords:	Computer software -- Development Software engineering -- Management Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	3-Sep-2018
Description:	Software cost estimation is a substantial issue in software development, even though techniques and models of software cost estimation has been proposed for the last thirty years. However, software cost estimation model developed based on the local project data has higher accuracy compared to the existing model in as it reflects on the software development in a particular organization. Not all the parameters of the existing models are applicable with the local software development environment. Based on the new empirical evidence, the public sectors more often face estimation failure due the result inaccurate. As the impact, the project to overshoot the budget, get delayed, face termination or remain incomplete in terms of the scope and requirements of project. Hence, the purpose of this study is to determine the critical factors of software cost estimation in public sectors. Besides that, the objective is to identify software cost estimation practice in Indonesian regional government. Therefore, this study focus on the software cost estimation in regional government of Indonesia because Indonesia use an autonomy concept. The methodology used is a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach. The quantitative method used the questionnaire as the data collection instrument, while the qualitative method involved interviewing personnel in the software cost estimation in public sector. The quantitative data is analyzed by using RASCH model because it can use to identify the respondent competency, the level difficulties of the items and the relationship between the item and respondent. The result of this study reveals that the current technique of software cost estimation is not effective which has an impact on the estimation result accuracy. The most influential factor is found to be a lack of experience in previous related project and absence of proper tools to estimate software cost. Besides, the scope and requirements are not well defined during the project proposal phase, which causes the scope and requirements to change. Based on a quantitative approach, the study indicates that there are six critical factors that have significant impact on software cost estimation result: programmer capability, top management support, the understanding of the top management of the objectives of the project, risks management, knowledge, and competency of the project manager and top management involvement in the project. As the outcome of this study, a software cost estimation model is developed which uses to prepare conducting software cost estimation. The estimator is able to identify the factors influence of software cost estimation. Hence, the proposed model can assist the government, practitioners or software development communities in estimating the software cost so that it can enhance effectiveness, reliability and accuracy of the cost estimated. It can also use for other researchers as reference for doing a further research on software cost estimation.,Master of Information System,Certification of Master's / Doctoral Thesis" is not available"
Pages:	181
Call Number:	QA76.76.D47R534 2018 3 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Information Science and Technology / Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat

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