Talk:Software equation

I'm afraid that, as written and commented, this equation makes no sense. The fact that t has a power of 4 means that changing from man-months to man-years will result in a vastly different result. I think there are several options:


 * change the comments to specify which units of time to use;
 * alter the factors B and/or P according to the units;
 * expand and correct the article with reference to new sources, since the original may be wrong as well!
 * scrap the whole thing.

Richard Stephens (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merge
Shouldn't this be merged with the “Putnam model” article? It covers essentially the same subject. 217.150.190.17 (talk) 12:03, 15 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree with the suggestion. Also, there isn't really much to merge, as this entire article depends on one flawed source (as pointed out by Richard Stephens). Given that nobody has suggested a different way to fix this article in 7 years, I'll go ahead and redirect to Putnam model, an article on a similar topic that is much more encyclopedic and has more sources. rspεεr (talk) 17:04, 26 July 2018 (UTC)