COCOMO MODEL RELATED QUESTION (SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGMENT)

Problem description: A software manager is in charge of the development of a safetycritical software system, which is designed to control a radiotherapy machine to treat patients suffering from cancer. This system is embedded in the machine and must run on a special-purpose system with a fixed amount of memory (256 Mbytes). The machine communicates with a patient database system to obtain the details of the patient and, after treatment, automatically records the radiation dose delivered and other treatment details in the database. The COCOMO method is used to estimate the effort required to develop this system, and an estimate of 26 person-months is computed. All cost driver multipliers were set to 1 when making this estimate. Now answer the following questions:- a) Break down the project into different activities (max 8-12) and document the schedule in at least two forms (use suitable Gantt chart tool) [3 marks] b) Identify any three risks involved in above project and select suitable strategies to manage them. [3 marks] c) Explain the adjustment of effort estimate to take project, personnel and product elements into account and identify possible values for these factors. [2 marks]