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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2007.14-D.6.641

The Effect of Requirement Creep on the Fixed-Cost Project Planning  

Lee, Sang-Un (강릉대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.14D, no.6, 2007 , pp. 641-648 More about this Journal
Abstract
To develop a dynamic system project in which the requirement changes frequently, it's impossible to finish the development within a fixed-cost due to additional budget occurring in need of requirement creep. To manage the successive project within a fixed-cost, it's better to manage the ratio of necessarily changed size of project and necessary optional requirement. According to Bhagwat, it is occurred in the construction phase. Also, he stated that the software development cost, construction phase cost and requirement cost are equal and it was wrong explanation in the ratio of requirement creep and optional requirement. This paper assumes the requirement creep to be happening in the phase of elaboration and construction. In addition, some differences were supposed to happen between software development cost, construction phase cost, and requirement creep cost. As a result, the reality was preferred rather than the ratio of optional requirement and the ratio of requirement creep.
Keywords
Requirement Creep; Fixed-Cost; Optional Requirements; Waterfall Process; Iterative Process;
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