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Ein Zuordnungsmodell zur Bewertung des Projektaufwands im Requirements Engineering

Because Effort Matters!

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Anfallender Projektaufwand ist kritisch für den Erfolg von Softwareentwicklungsprojekten. Er hat wesentlich Einfluss darauf, ob Zeit- und Budgetbeschränkungen eingehalten werden können. Aber obwohl Anforderungen den Projektaufwand beeinflussen, können ihn Methoden des Requirements Engineering (RE) nicht berechnen.

In dieser Arbeit stellen wir unser Zuordnungsmodell zur Bewertung des Projektaufwands (MMAPE) dar. MMAPE bezieht die Berechnung des aus Anforderungen resultierenden Projektaufwands in das RE mit ein, indem es die Semantik des RE Verfahrens KAOS den Strukturen zuordnet, die in Funktionspunktanalysen gezählt werden. In einer Fallstudie haben wir MMAPE anhand eines Softwareentwicklungsprojekts eines großen Finanzinstituts angewendet. Die Gültigkeit des MMAPE Ansatzes wird durch die Übereinstimmung von MMAPE berechneten und aus der Fallstudie stammenden Daten unterstützt.

Abstract

Project effort is critical for the success of software development projects. It has a major impact on whether constraints in time and budget can be complied with. But although requirements affect project effort, requirements engineering (RE) methods are not capable of assessing project effort.

In this paper, we present our mapping model for assessing project effort (MMAPE). MMAPE incorporates into RE the assessment of project effort resulting from requirements for software development projects. It maps semantics of the RE method KAOS onto structures that are counted in function point analyses. We applied MMAPE in a case study on a software development project within a large financial institution. The validity of MMAPE is supported, since we found throughout consistent statements between information provided by MMAPE and data gathered from the case.

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Diese Arbeit ist als Teil eines Forschungsprojekts am E-Finance Lab der Goethe Universität Frankfurt entstanden. In dieser Arbeit ausgedrückte Meinungen, Erkenntnisse, Schlussfolgerungen oder Empfehlungen sind die der Autoren und müssen nicht die Ansicht des E-Finance Labs oder seiner unterstützenden Partner widerspiegeln. Die Autoren danken den beteiligten Universitäten und den Industriepartnern für ihre Unterstützung.

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  1. Chair of Business Administration, Stiftungsjuniorprofessur des E-Finance Lab für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. E-Finance & Services Science, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323, Frankfurt, Deutschland

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This article is also available in English via http://www.springerlink.com and http://www.bise-journal.org: Zickert F, Beck R (2010) Because Effort Matters! A Mapping Model for Assessing Project Effort in Requirements Engineering. Bus Inf Syst Eng. doi: 10.1007/s12599-010-0103-y.

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Zickert, F., Beck, R. Weil Aufwand wichtig ist!. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 52, 161–171 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11576-010-0225-3

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