Estimeetings: Development Estimates and a Front-End Process for a Large Project
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
TRI-Ada '92 Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '92
Estimation of information systems development efforts: a pilot study
Information and Management
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
Causes of inaccurate software development cost estimates
Journal of Systems and Software
An empirical analysis of software effort estimate alterations
Journal of Systems and Software
Undersizing software systems: third versus fourth generation software development
European Journal of Information Systems
Information systems and organizational change
Communications of the ACM
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Software Project Duration and Effort: An Empirical Study
Information Technology and Management
IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
An Experience Report on the Personal Software Process
IEEE Software
An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy
Journal of Systems and Software
Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
How to Obtain Accurate Estimates in a Real-Time Environment Using Full Function Points
ASSET '00 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering Technology (ASSET'00)
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
A Review of Surveys on Software Effort Estimation
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Realism in Assessment of Effort Estimation Uncertainty: It Matters How You Ask
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Engineering (7th Edition)
Software Engineering (7th Edition)
A Survey on Software Estimation in the Norwegian Industry
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition)
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates
PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide
An Integrative Contingency Model of Software Project Risk Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and ... Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
A review of studies on expert estimation of software development effort
Journal of Systems and Software
A Comparison of Software Project Overruns-Flexible versus Sequential Development Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A framework for the analysis of software cost estimation accuracy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
REBSE '07 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
A new regression based software cost estimation model using power values
IDEAL'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
Identifying relevant studies in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Systematic literature review of machine learning based software development effort estimation models
Information and Software Technology
COCOMO-U: an extension of COCOMO II for cost estimation with uncertainty
SPW/ProSim'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Software Process Simulation and Modeling
Systematic mapping studies in software engineering
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Automated trendline generation for accurate software effort estimation
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity
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It is well documented that the software industry suffers from frequent cost overruns. A contributing factor is, we believe, the imprecise estimation terminology in use. A lack of clarity and precision in the use of estimation terms reduces the interpretability of estimation accuracy results, makes the communication of estimates difficult, and lowers the learning possibilities. This paper reports on a structured review of typical software effort estimation terminology in software engineering textbooks and software estimation research papers. The review provides evidence that the term 'effort estimate' is frequently used without sufficient clarification of its meaning, and that estimation accuracy is often evaluated without ensuring that the estimated and the actual effort are comparable. Guidelines are suggested on how to reduce this lack of clarity and precision in terminology.