ISBN : 978-81-963532-2-3 (E-Book) notdouble but rises moderately. This can be explained by the fact that for larger products, a largernumberofactivitieswhichcanbecarriedoutconcurrentlycanbeidentified.Theparallelactivities can be carried out simultaneously by the engineers. This reduces the time to completethe project. Further, from fig. 33.3, it can be observed that the development time is roughly thesameforallthethreecategoriesofproducts.Forexample,a60KLOCprogramcanbedeveloped in approximately 18 months, regardless of whether it is of organic, semidetached, orembeddedtype. Fig.33.3:Development timeversus size From the effort estimation, the project cost can be obtained by multiplying the required effort bythemanpowercostpermonth.But,implicitinthisprojectcostcomputationistheassumptionthat the 166 Software Engineering Keerthana P, Manasa KN, Ganga D Bengal
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