Costar & SystemStar Estimation Tools

Dan Ligett

Softstar Systems

Ligett@SoftstarSystems.com

http://www.SoftstarSystems.com

(603) 672-0987

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, e-mail, 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 15288 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