man-hours

Tool or formula for calcuating man-hours required for a project

Is there a tool or a formula for calculating man-hours required for a certain project? Either by specifying the details, either, even better, input the sources and have it calculate a measure of how many man-hours were put into the project. Edit: I often hear about big projects, with components built in parallel by numerous groups, tha...

Calculating Hours Spent Using COCOMO 2

How do I calculate development time (hours) using COCOMO2? I am trying to calculate the time (hours) a programmer will spend on a programming project using COCOMO2. Here is what I have so far but I am not sure if this is correct. I would prefer to calculate this by hand, rather than using an online calculator. Any assistance will be rea...