Design And Realization Of A Middle Scale Software Enterprise Oriented Cost Management System

The cost management is the key problem among the software project management. At present, the scale of most software enterprises are not very large, the phenomena, such as software projects are postponed, budgets are overspent, the quality of products is inferior and projects are failed, are very severe. Because existing experiences and theories about software cost management are mostly applied to complicated projects of large-scale enterprises, it is important to discuss the software cost management for small-scale enterprises.A vision from a project manager, this dissertation discussed the concepts and characteristics of software projects cost management; argued about the typical theories about cost management systems and the typical cost management method models, such as the system info of PMBOK, the model of COCOMO; compared and analyzed their theories, peculiarities and limitations respectively. According to the Current management of software company—S, an advanced cost management model based on the studying is built and will be applied in software company whose size is small and middle in the software industry . it provides the reference for the similar companies, at last , based on the cost management model a project management system software is designed and developed which concludes the methodology that the cost management processes, such as cost estimation, cost planning, and cost control, were designed in the details. The result is effective and considerable. So the paper is a complete solution about project cost management.