Does the use of Fibonacci numbers in planning poker affect effort estimates?

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 228-232

  Tamrakar, Ritesh ^a   Jørgensen, Magne ^b,c  

^a University of Kathmandu   (Nepal)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ESTIMATION PROCESS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FIBONACCI NUMBERS; LINEAR SCALE;

NUMBER THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84865464015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2012.0030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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