Enhanced software project management by application of metrics and cost estimation techniques

This paper describes elements of an improvement project within a collaborative partnership between the University of Cambridge and GPT Ltd, the UK's largest supplier of telecommunications solutions. The project aims to identify, formulate and collect a series of key measures to aid project planning and control through the provision of valid quantitative project data, and to stimulate software process improvement. In the paper the approach to metrics implementation is discussed and recently developed cost estimation techniques are introduced.