A New Metric To Estimate Project Development Time: Process Points

In this article, a new metrics to estimate project development time is proposed. The approach is based on business process models. The estimates are divided into four categories: process, screen, integration and service. They are quantified in process points. The project must be modeled as a business process, the four estimates must be calculated and added to obtain the final project complexity. It is a faster method to evaluate the design of complex software systems. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.172 AISC197208 IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Spain Section ChapterSharp, A., McDermott, P., (2001) Workflow Modeling, , Artech House, BostonAlbrecht, A.J., Gaffney, J., Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation (1983) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 6Dunn, A., Function Points, Functional Requirements, Functional Documentation IFPUG Annual Conference (2002)Kusumoto, S., Matukawa, F., Inoue, K., Hanabusa, S., Maegawa, Y., Estimating effort by use case points: Method, tool and case study (2004) Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Software Metrics, 2, pp. 292-299(2009) Business Process Modeling Notation, , http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/09-01-03.pdfofstandarddocumentKhalaf, R., Keller, A., Leymann, F., Business processes for Web Services: Principles and applications (2006) IBM System Journal, , http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/452/khalaf.htmlMacKenzie, C.M., Laskey, K., McCabe, F., Brown, P.F., Metz, R., (2006) Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture 1.0, , http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/v1.0/ofstandarddocumentErl, T., (2007) SOA - Principles of Service Design, , Prentice Hall International ISBN: 978-013234482