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Software effort models and effort estimates help project managers allocate resources, control costs, and schedule and improve current practices, which in theory should allow projects to be finished on time and within budget. In the context of Web development and maintenance, these issues are also crucial, and very challenging, given that Web projects have short schedules and highly fluidic scopes. Therefore, in this chapter we introduce the concepts related to Web effort estimation and effort estimation techniques that will be used in further chapters.
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This work was funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden Fast Start research grant 06-UOA-201), and a Research Fellowship by the Brazilian Agency for Scientific Improvement. Professor Mendes was the first female in CS in NZ to obtain a Marsden FS as sole investigator.
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Mendes, E. (2014). Introduction to Bayesian Networks. In: Practitioner's Knowledge Representation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54157-5_5
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