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Introduction to Effort Estimation

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Good effort estimates are essential to help project managers allocate resources and control costs and schedule, which in turn enables projects to be finished on time and within budget. This chapter introduces the concepts related to effort estimation and also details the most common avenues that have been pursued by researchers who have investigated this area using models. The chapter ends with a discussion about issues with these common avenues and sets the scene for the technique that is detailed and used in further chapters. All the examples given are based on effort estimation relating to Web projects.

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Mendes, E. (2014). Introduction to Effort Estimation. In: Practitioner's Knowledge Representation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54157-5_3

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