The last factor to consider deals with the experience level of the project team members. This is called the environmental complexity factor (ECF). Take each factor in Table C-4 and assign it a rating between 0 and 5. Consider the following contexts:
For the first four factors, 0 means no experience in the subject, 3 means average, and 5 means expert.
For the fifth factor, 0 means no motivation for the project, 3 means average, and 5 means high motivation.
For the sixth factor, 0 means extremely unstable requirements, 3 means average, and 5 means unchanging requirements.
For the seventh factor, 0 means no part-time technical staff, 3 means average, and 5 means all part-time technical staff.
For the eighth factor, 0 means easy-to-use programming language, 3 means average, and 5 means very difficult programming language.
The total extended weight for all environmental factors is called the E factor. Now that we have this value, we plug it into a formula to obtain the environmental complexity factor: ECF = 1.4 + (–0.03 × E factor). For Remulak Productions, we get the following:
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