Practical guidelines for expert-judgment-based software effort estimation

IEEE Software

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 57-63

  Jorgensen, Magne ^a,b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ESTIMATION; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EXPERT JUDGMENT; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21244481371     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.73     Document Type: Article

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