Team task assignments appear to have a significant potential impact on a project's overall success. The authors propose task assignment effort adjustment factors that can help tune existing estimation models. They show significant improvements in the predictive abilities of both Cocomo I and II by enhancing them with these factors.
Citation:
Joanne Hale, Allen Parrish, Brandon Dixon, Randy K. Smith, "Enhancing the Cocomo Estimation Models," IEEE Software, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 45-49, Nov./Dec. 2000, doi:10.1109/52.895167