Software Engineering Economics and Declining Budgets

Software Engineering Economics is a relatively new discipline that deals with all segments of the software life cycle. The discipline has received much visibility in recent years because of the size and cost considerations of many software development and maintenance efforts. This book places additional emphasis on the Federal Government`s Information Resource Management initiative and deals with related issues such as Business Re-engineering, Functional Economic Analysis, Organizational Process Modelling and the Economics of Reuse.

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Measurement Activity and SEI Process Maturity Levels.- Economical Software Starts With Business; Experiencing CASE Tool Projects with Business, Industry and Government.- The Challenge of Managing and Developing a Very Large and Dynamic Management Information System.- The MERMAID Project.- Software Reuse and Productivity: An Empirical View.- A Software Cost Model of Reuse Within a Single System.- Forestry as an Alternative Metaphor for Software Development: Applying Multiobjective Impact Analysis.- Tools for Managing Repository Objects.- Methodological Issues in Functional Economic Analysis.- Using IDEFO in Functional Economic Analysis.- Performance Evaluation Gradient.- Defense Blood Standard System Functional Economic Analysis: A Case Study.