Estimating OO Development Efforts

[psinntp!bse.com!bse.com!ron@uunet.uu.net (Ronald C. Schultz)]

Does anyone have any specific criteria or rules they use to estimate
object-oriented development efforts? For instance, how do you factor
for the following:
o	Identifying sources of requirements
o	Identifying non-functional requirements (performance, reliability,...)
o	Characterising sources of requirements
o	Characterizing requirements
o	Identifying candidate objects
o	Constructing object-oriented models of the problem
o	Constructing object-oriented models of the candidate solutions
o	Relocalizing requirements information around objects
o	Creating object and class specifications
o	Selecting class specifications from a reusability library
o	Quality assuring, verifying, and validating object and class
	specifications
o	Constructing the object-oriented requirements specification
o	Presenting the requirements specification for review
o	Identifying design objects
o	.... list to be continued depending upon your methodology

Any input would be appreciated.

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