Estimating agile software project effort: An empirical study

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1907-1916

  Cao, Lan ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile planning; Agile software development; Software project effort estimation

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARES; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84870378581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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