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Software Effort Estimation: Planning XP Guidelines Compared to Research on Traditional Software Development

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In the “Planning Extreme Programming” framework by Beck and Fowler, they propose several guidelines for project estimation. This paper focuses on the guideline to use estimation teams. There exist several methods from software engineering research on how to do this, with varying degree of formalism involved. We present an account of earlier research on how to combine expert estimates, and compare it with the XP guidelines. It seems that the proposed framework, with some modifications, is a reasonable way to improve accuracy.

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  1. Simula Research Laboratory, Martin Linges v 17, Fornebu, Norway

    Kjetil Moløkken

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Ami, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  2. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Center for Applied Software Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Moløkken, K. (2003). Software Effort Estimation: Planning XP Guidelines Compared to Research on Traditional Software Development. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_77

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