Magne Jørgensen and Stein Grimstad. “Software development estimation biases: the role of interdependence.” TSE 2012 38(3). Software development effort estimates are frequently too low, which may lead to poor project plans and project failures. One reason for this bias seems to be that the effort estimates produced by software developers are affected by information that [...]
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Ekrem Kocaguneli, Tim Menzies, and Jacky Keung. “On the value of ensemble effort estimation”, TSE 2011. Background: Despite decades of research, there is no consensus on which software effort estimation methods produce the most accurate models. Aim: Prior work has reported that, given M estimation methods, no single method consistently outperforms all others. Perhaps rather [...]
Magne Jørgensen and Stein Grimstad. The Impact of Irrelevant and Misleading Information on Software Development Effort Estimates: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment. TSE Sep/Oct 2011. Studies in laboratory settings report that software development effort estimates can be strongly affected by effort-irrelevant and misleading information. To increase our knowledge about the importance of these effects in field [...]
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