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2023 International Boehm COCOMO Forum on Systems and Software Cost Modeling�with�Practical Software and Systems Measurement Users Group

November 14 – 16, 2023

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Thank You

  • Our host: Aerospace Chantilly
    • Rita
    • Vera
    • AnnMarie
    • Tomeka
    • The AV Guy!
  • Conference General Chair:
    • Anandi Hira (SEI)
    • Cheryl Jones (PSM)
  • Program Chairs:
    • Kim Bell (Aerospace)
    • Arlene Minkiewicz (Unison)
  • Julie Sanchez – back-fill& jack-of-all trades,
  • Tenley Burke – forum finances
  • Bo Wang – website

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Forum Stats

  • Boehm CSSE and PSM joined together to host a hybrid forum. The focus was on the future of measurement and cost modeling.
  • Presented topics include:
    • Measurement and cost estimating for Digital Engineering and MBSE projects.
    • Overall challenges to measuring and estimating the cost of different development paradigms, (e.g., MBSE, Agile, and DevOps)
    • The role of AI and Machine Learning in building cost estimates and measurement.
    • New or modified size and/or cost drivers to estimate software development effort in response to changing development processes and environments/tools (e.g., Agile and DevOps).
  • Presentations: 16
  • Workshops: 4
  • In-person Attendance: 22-26
  • Virtual Attendance: 25-30

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Membership Feedback & ARR Topics

  • The Annual Research Review is focused on System and Software Engineering thinking, issues, processes, approaches, etc.
    • Generative AI, Autonomy
    • Data analytics
    • Digital Engineering
    • Systems Thinking
    • Quality of systems
    • Enterprise architecture, software processes
    • Software intensive systems
    • Software maintenance and quality
  • Do you have any suggestions?

  • Send ideas to Forum@BoehmCSSE.org

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Conference General Chair Comments

  • Anandi

  • Cheryl

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