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Costing Models for Information Technology (IT) Services


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The cost estimation process includes a number of iterative steps. The reason for the iteration over the different steps is that cost estimation is part of the larger planning and design process, in which the system is designed to fit performance, cost, and schedule constraints along with reconciliation and review of the different estimates.

In the highly competitive Information Technology (IT) sector, firms need to be cost efficient in order to remain competitive.


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  • Neumann, Bruce R; Gerlach, James H; Moldauer, Edwin; Finch, Michael; Olson, Christine (2004). “Cost management using ABC for IT activities and Services” Management Accounting Quarterly 6. 1 (Fall 2004): 29.

  • Gerlach, James; Neumann, Bruce; Moldauer, Edwin; Argo, Martha; Frisby, Daniel. (2002) “Determine the cost of IT services” Association for Computing Machinery.

  • Business Wire [New York] 10 Apr 2006 Service based costing models Communications of the ACM 45. 9 (Sep 2002): 61-67

  • http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ - Software Engineering Institute (SEI), - DOD FFRDC at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on software

  • http://sunset.usc.edu/ - USC Center for Software Engineering homepage and site for COCOMO family of cost models

  • http://www.ispa-cost.org/ - International Society of Parametric Analysts

  • http://users.erols.com/scea/ - Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis

  • http://www.spr.com/index.htm - Capers Jones’ Software Productivity Research

  • Boehm, et al. Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2000

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Ashish Varma
IMT, Ghaziabad, India

Abstract


The cost estimation process includes a number of iterative steps. The reason for the iteration over the different steps is that cost estimation is part of the larger planning and design process, in which the system is designed to fit performance, cost, and schedule constraints along with reconciliation and review of the different estimates.

In the highly competitive Information Technology (IT) sector, firms need to be cost efficient in order to remain competitive.


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