Identification of more risks can lead to increased over-optimism of and over-confidence in software development effort estimates

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 506-516

  Jørgensen, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Effort estimation; Human judgment; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EFFORT ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION PROCESS; RISK IDENTIFICATION; SIMPLE APPROACH; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949490523     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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