Effort estimation for ERP projects - a systematic review

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are large scale integrated systems covering most of the business processes of an enterprise. ERP projects differ from software projects with customization, modification, integration and data conversion phases. Most of the time effort and time estimations are performed in an ad-hoc fashion in ERP projects and as a result they frequently suffer from time and budget overruns. Although there is no consensus on a methodology to estimate size, effort and cost of ERP projects there are various research studies in the field. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on effort estimation methods for ERP projects, their validations and limitations. The systematic literature review used online journal indexes between January 2000 and December 2016. Studies focusing on effort estimation for ERP projects were selected. Two reviewers assessed all studies and 41 were shortlisted. In most of the studies, cost factors for ERP projects were investigated and validated. Our findings showed that effort estimation methods have mostly used function points as an input. Validations of these methods were mostly done by using history-based validation approaches

Effort estimation methods for ERP projects based on function points: A case study

27th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 12th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM Mensura 2017; Gothenburg; Sweden; 25 October 2017 through 27 October 2017Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems evolve at a rapid pace based on customer and industry expectations. As a result, historic project data for these kinds of projects lose their value especially for analogy based estimation methods. In this rapidly evolving domain, function point based methods might provide a sound alternative for ERP effort estimation. This paper presents the results obtained by applying three methods published in the literature in which function points are used as an input for ERP effort estimation. The evaluation of these methods with respect to their measurement processes and estimation errors are presented; their advantages and disadvantages are discussed

Exploring reuse levels in ERP projects in search of an effort estimation approach

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects have special characteristics that differentiate them from other kinds of software projects. Main difference that affects effort estimation results is high reuse rates of ERP projects. This paper presents our exploratory work to establish an approach to calculate reuse reflective size of ERP projects, which could be a primary input for effort estimation. We explored the usability of COSMIC function points as the base unit and its convertibility to reuse reflective size using reuse levels. We have performed a case study on an SAP Implementation project. We were able to calculate COSMIC size and reuse levels using the documents available for the project. We discuss the results as well as challenges and opportunities in the light of the case study

Primary Tumor Surgery in Patients with De Novo Bone-only Stage IVA/B Breast Cancer: MetS: Protocol MF22-03, Combination Data Analysis of Prospective Studies

24th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS) -- APR 26-30, 2023 -- MS --[No abstract available