topic Re: ABAP Project Estimation in Application Development and Automation Discussions

ABAP Project Estimation

Former Member — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:03:58 GMT

What are some good rules of thumb and sources to read about estimating ECC or R/3 implementation work?

Re: ABAP Project Estimation

Former Member — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:38:12 GMT

I think, this link may be useful.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0f97946-20e5-2910-e4aa-d4ec8b6c345c

Regards,

Maha

Re: ABAP Project Estimation

Former Member — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:14:56 GMT

Thank you Maha. I appreciated your link.

I am looking for something that will tell me average productivity for an ABAP programmer in terms of non-blank Lines of tested code (NBLOC) or a similar metric. For example, if I estimate it will take 60,000 non-blank lines of code (this includes comments, since they are not blank), how much ABAP program effort should be required to write that?

Function Points, it turns out, are not very good metrics for such estimation.

Dan joseph

Re: ABAP Project Estimation

Former Member — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:33:26 GMT

Hi Daniel,

In our company we use ABAP effort estimation tool. A customm built tool which will idnetify the approximate effort required for a given development. The effort is calculated based on the skill set of the developer assigned. For example an object might take 5 days of developmet effort if the developer is a Expert, 8 days if the developer is a Intermediate and 12 days if the developer is a Beginer. So the total effort for any object is determined based on various factors such as the complexcity of code, complex logics, no of BAPI's to be called, no of user interfaces , no of file interfaces and many more such attributes.

It is always difficult to come to an exact effort tracker. We can only come close to the actual effort tracker. We spent a lot of time to develop the effort tracker tool which gives us a close results.

I hope this helps

Cheers