You run a software development business in Toronto. You are offered a chance to bid on a government contract that you estimate will require 600 000 lines of code, deliverable in one year. You have developed a model: Effort = 3.0(KLOC)1.2 to predict the effort, in programmer-months, required to complete a job, where `KLOC' stands for `thousands of lines of code'. On the basis of this model, how many programmers should you assign to work on the project?

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First, convert the total lines of code to KLOC: 600,000 lines = 600 KLOC. Then, apply the model: Effort = 3.0 * (600)^1.2. This gives an effort of approximately 6474 programmer-months. To complete this in one year (12 months), divide the total effort by 12: 6474 / 12 ≈ 540. Therefore, you should assign approximately 540 programmers to the project.

You Run a Software Development Business in Toronto