The scale factor for team cohesion accounts for sources of project instability and entropy for the reason that of intricacy in synchronizing stakeholders of a project. Endusers, customers, developers, maintainers, interfacers, and such are included in this category. Boehm construes that "these difficulties may arise from differences in stakeholder objectives and cultures; difficulties in reconciling objectives; and stakeholders’ lack of experience and familiarity in operating as a team". The following table outlines definitions for TEAM rating levels. TEAM ranking should be subjectively weighted in order to average the outlined distinctiveness.
Characteristic | Very Low | Low | Nominal | High | Very High | Extra High |
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Consistency of stakeholder objectives and cultures | Little | Some | Basic | Considerable | Strong | Full |
Ability, willingness of stakeholders to accommodate other stakeholders’ objectives | Little | Some | Basic | Considerable | Strong | Full |
Experience of stakeholders in operating as a team | None | Little | Little | Basic | Considerable | Extensive |
Stakeholder teambuilding to achieve shared vision and commitments | None | Little | Little | Basic | Considerable | Extensive |
Scale Factors for COCOMO.II Early Design and Post-Architecture Models
TEAM Descriptors | very difficult interactions | some difficult interactions | basically cooperative interactions | largely cooperative | highly cooperative | seamless interactions |
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Rating Levels | Very Low | Low | Nominal | High | Very High | Extra High |
Value | 5.48 | 4.38 | 3.29 | 2.19 | 1.10 | 0.00 |