An Empirical Study of Learning Curve Theory’s application to the Software Development Effort-Experience Relationship in Software Engineering and Project Management

Parag C. Pendharkar; Girish Subramanian

An Empirical Study of Learning Curve Theory’s application to the Software Development Effort-Experience Relationship in Software Engineering and Project Management

Parag C. Pendharkar, Girish Subramanian

School of Business Administration (Harrisburg)

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Abstract

The experience of software developers in a given tool is often perceived as an endogenous factor in software cost estimation. Many manufacturing applications have modeled resources devoted to output production, and worker’s knowledge as learning curves. In this paper, we use and test the learning curve theory in software industry. We illustrate that a programmer’s effort exponentially decreases as his/her tool experience increases. After certain amount of tool-experience, the effort reduction asymptotically stabilizes. We believe that the learning curve theory and its application provide an excellent opportunity for IT project managers to better utilize the experience of their software personnel.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	767-772
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2004
Event	10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004 - New York, United States Duration: Aug 6 2004 → Aug 8 2004

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Conference	10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	8/6/04 → 8/8/04

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Library and Information Sciences
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications

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