Combining estimates with planning poker - An empirical study

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 349-358

  Moløkken Østvold, Kjetil ^a   Haugen, Nils Christian ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b Objectnet   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

GROUP CONSENSUS ESTIMATES; MECHANICAL COMBINATION; PLANNING POKER; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548134555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2007.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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