Simulating the Latent Effect of Attrition on Project Management

Staff attrition is a problem often faced by software development organizations. We used process modeling and simulation to estimate the effect of different staffing policies on the project cost. A simulation technique has been used for analyzing the effect of the policies pertaining to replacement for engineers who leave the project, and also overstaffing in the beginning of the project.This paper presents the simulation technique for optimizing the cost of staffing by analyzing replenishment level and replenishment strength with respect to attrition.