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Cost Estimation


Date:  6 Dec 1997

1.  Lawrence Putnam and Ware Myers, "MEASURES FOR EXCELLENCE: Reliable Software
    on Time, Within Budget," Prentice-Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-567694-0.
    Suggested in Fall 1995 as the current standard by several correspondents.
    Constrains solutions to those that meet the user's objectives, such as
    cost, schedule, staff available, quality.
2.  Barry W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics, Prentice-Hall, 1981.  This
    used to be the standard; it introduced the COCOMO model.



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