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Next COSYSMO Working Group Meeting

October 22, 2007

Los Angeles, CA

 

Commercial Tool Vendors Release their versions of COSYSMO

 

 

The purpose of the COSYSMO (Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model)  model is to estimate the Systems Engineering effort for large-scale systems (both software and hardware).

COSYSMO supports ANSI/EIA 632 standard as a guide for identifying the Systems Engineering tasks and ISO/IEC 15288 standard for identifying system life cycle phases.

Several CSSE Affiliates, LAI Consortium Members, and members of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) have been involved in the definition of the drivers, formulation of rating scales, data collection, and strategic direction of the model.

     
     
 

Copyright © 2006 Ricardo Valerdi

 

 

Minutes from past events

Working Group Meeting

9th Practical Software and Systems Measurement Workshop, Keystone, CO

July 20, 2005  

PhD Dissertation Defense

USC Salvatori Computer Science Center (Room 322)

May 9, 2005 (coming soon)

Working Group Meeting

USC-CSE Annual Research Review, Los Angeles, CA

March 14, 2005 Download Outbrief 

Birds of a Feather Meeting

Ground System Architecture Workshop, Manhattan Beach, CA

March 3, 2005 Download minutes 

Working Group Meeting

19th COCOMO Forum, Los Angeles, CA

October 28, 2004 Download minutes

Working Group Meeting

8th Practical Software and Systems Measurement Workshop, Keystone, CO

July 28-29, 2004

Download minutes

 

 

 

Downloads

academicCOSYSMO User Manual    
COSYSMO Data collection form    
COSYSMO Delphi Round 2 Survey    
myCOSYSMO Prototype v1.22    WARNING: for demonstration & visualization purposes only Developed by Gary Thomas (Raytheon Garland, TX)
COSYSMO Risk-Confidence Estimator v03.01.05    WARNING: for demonstration & visualization purposes only Developed by John Gaffney (Lockheed Martin Gaithersburg, MD)
COSYSMO Data Management Procedures    
COSYSMO Data Feasibility Survey    
COSYSMO Data Sources    
     
 

Briefings/Presentations

(click here to access archive of presentations from 2001-2003)

 
Presentation Given by Date
INCOSE CAB update van Gaasbeek January 24, 2004
Delphi Round 2 results Valerdi February 4, 2004
ISPA "Sizing via requirements" Valerdi March 5, 2004
COSYSMO Working Group Meeting Outbrief Valerdi March 16, 2004
Charts on model unification Lane/Valerdi October 26, 2004
COSYSMO Working Group Meeting Slides Valerdi October 28, 2004
COSYSMO Preliminary Results Valerdi February 4, 2005
COSYSMO Working Group Meeting  Valerdi March 14, 2005
COSYSMO Risk-Confidence Estimator Gaffney March 14, 2005

Reference Material

Unifying Software Engineering and Systems Engineering paper
EIA632 website
PSM Guide v 4.0 (Part 3)
ISO/IEC15288 website
Applying Activity Based Counting Technique to System Design Effort (Jeffrey Shupp)
   

Papers

COSYSMO: A Systems Engineering Cost Model - 1st Conference on Systems Integration (Stevens Institute of Technology), March 2003
COSYSMO: A Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model Coming of Age - INCOSE 2003 Symposium, June 2003
Systems Engineering Sizing in the Age of Acquisition Reform - 18th COCOMO Forum, October 2003
The Effect of Size and Cost drivers on Systems Engineering Effort - Systems Engineering Journal (under review)
Lessons Learned from Collecting Systems Engineering Data - 2nd Conference on Systems Engineering Research
An Approach to Technology Risk, MIT Engineering Systems Symposium, March 2004
Systems Engineering Cost Estimation by Consensus, International Conference on Systems Engineering, September 2004
Model Unification of Software, Systems, and Systems of Systems
Pending: What's In A Name?
COCOMO Suite Methodology & Evolution
Pending: Synthesizing System of Systems Architecture Concepts for Use in Cost Estimation
  Pending: Sea Level Requirements as Systems Engineering Size Metrics  
     

Links

  Related Efforts  
  Value of Systems Engineering, Eric Honour, INCOSE Systems Engineering Center of Excellence  
  Systems Engineering Leading Indicators, Donna Rhodes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Systems Engineering Technical Measures, Cheryl Jones, US Army & PSM and Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin
  System Parameterization Utilizing Requirements (SPUR), Brooke Eiche, Lockheed Martin  
  Organizations  
USC Center for Software Engineering
International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
  INCOSE Measurement Working Group  
  INCOSE Systems Engineering Center of Excellence (SECOE)  
  Tool Developers  
  SoftStar Systems is the developer of SystemStar, a commercial version of COSYSMO  
  Galorath, Inc. is the developer of the SEER suite of estimating tools and will soon include COSYSMO parameters  
  PRICE Systems is the developer of the TruePlanning environment which includes the COSYSMO model as one of its estimation catalogs