Additional Resources

Putnam, Lawrence H. and Ware Myers. Five Core Metrics. New York, NY: Dorset House, 2003. Chapter 11 goes into detail about the efficiency penalty for exceeding 7 people on a medium-sized business-systems project.

Stutzke, Richard D. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2005. Stutzke provides several additional methods for estimating schedule, most of which are more mathematically intensive than the techniques described in this chapter.