Providers of models, tools, techniques, and other services for software maintenance estimation, performance, and tracking.
Galorath Incorporated - Galorath provides a comprehensive set of decision-support and production optimization tools. Consulting and support services are available for these tools. The tools help manage product design and manufacturing operations, driving out costs and building in quality. The tools derive cost, schedule, labor and materials estimates by assessing the interaction and impact of product, organizational and even operational variables.
PRICE Systems LLC - PRICE® Systems enables organizations to successfully estimate and analyze the effort, schedule and cost of the projects. PRICE develops and supports cost estimating, analysis, and knowledge capture tools to help customers manage cost and schedule throughout a project's lifecycle. Combined with our expert mentoring in cost estimating, project control methods, and best practices, these tools enable a standard, repeatable cost estimating discipline.
PRICE® Systems markets the True S model for software estimation. This model is a successor to the PRICE-S model they have marketed.
Softstar Systems - This company markets the CoStar and SystemStar tools. Costar is an automated implementation of COCOMO II developed by SoftStar Systems. SystemStar, an automated implementation of COSYSMO. The company also offers free and unlimited technical support for customers of their models.
USC Center for Software Engineering - Thirty-six Affiliates help keep USC CSE in touch with technology, applications, and economic trends through participation in their annual workshops and collaborative projects, covering such areas as value-based spiral model extensions, COCOMO cost-schedule-quality estimation model extensions, UML-xADL architecture specification extensions, COTS-based system development, and agile methods.
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