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Elements of a realistic CASE tool adoption budget

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 4 (April 1992) table of contents

Pages: 45 - 54

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

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Clifford C. Huff

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 8

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	Tilmann Bruckhaus, TIM: a tool insertion method, Proceedings of the 1994 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, p.7, October 31-November 03, 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Tilmann Bruckhaus , Nazim H. Madhavji , Ingrid Janssen , John Henshaw, The Impact of Tools on Software Productivity, IEEE Software, v.13 n.5, p.29-38, September 1996
	Lars Mathiassen , Carsten Sørensen, Managing CASE introduction: beyond software process maturity, Proceedings of the 1994 computer personnel research conference on Reinventing IS : managing information technology in changing organizations: managing information technology in changing organizations, p.242-251, March 24-26, 1994, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
	Arun Rai , Ravi Patnayakuni, A structural model for CASE adoption behavior, Journal of Management Information Systems, v.13 n.2, p.205-234, September 1996
	Xavier A. Debest , Rüdiger Knoop , Jürgen Wagner, Reveng: a cost-effective approach to reverse-engineering, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.17 n.4, p.60-67, Oct. 1992

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
Subjects: Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.9 Management
Subjects: Time estimation; Cost estimation; Life cycle

K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.0 General
Subjects: Economics
K.6.1 Project and People Management
Subjects: Life cycle
K.6.2 Installation Management
Subjects: Pricing and resource allocation; Computing equipment management

General Terms:
Economics, Management

Keywords:
CASE adoption life cycle, CASE budget estimation, cost drivers, sample CASE budget

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