Using the COSMIC method to estimate Agile User Stories

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 68-73

  Desharnais, Jean Marc ^a   Buglione, Luigi ^b   Kocatürk, Bǔra ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ETS/EngineeringIT SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agile; COSMIC; Function Point; Planning; Software Project Management

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PLANNING; AGILE; AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; APPLICATION DOMAINS; CONSTRUCTIVE COST MODELS; COSMIC; FUNCTION POINT; MEASUREMENT METHODS; PROJECT PLANS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; USER STORIES;

COSMOLOGY; ESTIMATION; PLANNING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84865639430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2181101.2181117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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