Software development estimation biases: The role of interdependence

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 677-693

  Jørgensen, Magne ^a   Grimstad, Stein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

cultural differences; Effort estimation; estimation bias; software engineering

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; EFFORT ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION BIAS; OUTSOURCING COMPANIES; PROJECT FAILURES; PROJECT PLANS; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; THINKING STYLES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84861855872     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.40     Document Type: Article

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