Costar & SystemStar Estimation Tools Dan Ligett Softstar Systems (603)

Softstar History Look to the past for clues about the future: 21 years DOS, VMS, Solaris, Win 3, Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win 2000, Win XP… Hundreds and hundreds of customers 21 COCOMO Meetings

Technical Support Free, unlimited, technical support –Phone, fax, , website, FAQ –Modeling issues –COCOMO & COSYSMO questions & interpretations –Calibration techniques –Estimating methods, line counting, etc. How can we do that? –The software is excellent –The GUI is excellent –The help system is excellent

Costar Features Incremental COCOMO COCOMO II COCOMO 81, REVIC Many reports & graphs Export to Excel Schedule Constraints Calico for calibration –Add phases, activities, cost drivers, defaults It’s COCOMO – open, studied, validated, known

Costar Licensing Single User License –Inexpensive way to introduce COCOMO Site License –No per seat charges, all employees at a site get Costar Worldwide Corporate License –No per seat charges, all employees get Costar –Standard estimating method, tools, training, file formats, etc. –About 19 cents each for LMCO-sized company One time fee – not an annual charge!

SystemStar Features Estimates Systems Engineering Effort Based on the COSYSMO model ISO framework 14 reports & graphs Reuse Model Exports to Excel Calibration tool included Free Technical Support

SystemStar Licensing Site License Worldwide Corporate License –No per seat charges, all employees get SystemStar –Standard estimating method, tools, training, file formats, etc. Annual Fee

Estimate Systems Engineering Effort

Easy to Adjust Cost Drivers

Effort per Activity per Phase

Effort & Cost per Phase