A new project has average novelty for the software supplier that is going to execute it and is thus given a high rating on this account for precedentedness. Development flexibility is low, but requirements may change radically and so the risk resolution exponent is rated very low. The development team are all located in the same office, and this leads to team cohesion being rated as very high, but the software.

house as a whole tends to be very informal in its standards and procedures and the process maturity driver has therefore been given a rating of low.

(i) What would be the scale factor (sf) in this case?

(ii) What would the estimate of effort if the size of the application was estimated as in the region of 5000 lines of code?