Deriving Metrics For Estimating The Effort Needed In Requirements Compliance Work

[Context and motivation] Making acceptable effort estimates of achieving regulatory compliance of requirements in large-scale systems engineering projects has eluded project management. [Problem] Traditional effort estimation tools working with LOC, function-point, and object point metrics do not consider requirements compliance work. Consequences include: poor estimates, project delays, cost overruns, quality problems, and customer dissatisfaction. [Principal ideas/results] In this short paper, we describe a novel methodological approach for deriving metrics for estimating the effort for conducting requirements compliance work. This method was created from analysing a number of impediments to achieving compliance in a large systems engineering project, along with their associatedmetrics. [Contribution] The methodological approach described is the key contribution. It lays a foundation for deriving metrics needed for creating an effort-estimation model for compliance work in the RE process.