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How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices

How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices

Emilia Mendes
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781599041353|ISBN10: 1599041359|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927165|EISBN13: 9781599041377
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-135-3.ch009
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Emilia Mendes. "How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices." Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects, IGI Global, 2008, pp.275-302. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-135-3.ch009

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E. Mendes (2008). How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-135-3.ch009

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Emilia Mendes. "How to Improve Your Company's Effort Estimation Practices." In Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-135-3.ch009

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Abstract

Numerous Web development companies worldwide do not employ formal techniques to estimate effort for new projects, thus relying on expert-based opinion (McDonald & Welland, 2001; Mendes, Mosley, & Counsell, 2005). In addition, many Web companies do not gather any data on past projects, which can later be used to estimate effort for new projects, and as a consequence they are not aware of how effort is used throughout their projects and if it could be used more effectively. This chapter provides a set of guidelines we believe can be of benefit to Web companies to help them improve their effort estimation practices. Our guidelines are particularly targeted at small Web development companies.

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