The Human Factor in the Economics of Custom Software Products

V. V. Lipaev, Professor, Senior Scientific Researcher, e-mail: vlip28@mail.ru, Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

The human factor in software engineering is a unique phenomenon, the scope of the study and practical application. He concentrates in intellectual products and does not depend on the supply of materials and a variety of physical means. It is very difficult to identify and evaluate the impact on quality of products, to predict costs and certify properties that have been made, as well as the characteristics of complex programs. However, the production of large custom software must be planned and must be managed. Such management should take into account the characteristics and qualifications of large groups of professionals-developers. To do this in Russia [1, 4, 5] and abroad [2, 3, 7] under investigation and the methodical framework to address the human factor in the production of large complex programs. This publication presents approaches that may contribute to the formation, development and application on a particular enterprise of modern software engineering methodologies. Such approaches and produced by them are intended to support effective evaluation processes of collective production of complex software products for different fields of application. Submitted considerations, arguments and numerical indicators can inform managers of large projects for the development and implementation of complex programs to the need to assess the impact of the human factor. Presents tables for their numerical evaluation based on the use of the model COCOMO II. The influence of individual professionals involved in the creation of software products, as well as the characteristics of the organization development teams on the economic characteristics of their production.

Keywords: economic characteristics, factors of production, software, model COCOMO II

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