Information systems and organizational change
Communications of the ACM
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
A Review of Surveys on Software Effort Estimation
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
A review of studies on expert estimation of software development effort
Journal of Systems and Software
A framework for the analysis of software cost estimation accuracy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Confidence in software cost estimation results based on MMRE and PRED
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Predictor models in software engineering
Towards a value-based approach in software engineering
CEA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd WSEAS International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Integrate the GM(1,1) and Verhulst models to predict software stage effort
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
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What is a software cost estimate? Is it the most likely cost, the planned cost, the budget, the price, or, something else? Through comparison with vacation cost estimation and a real-life case we illustrate that it is not meaningful to compare and analyze cost estimates unless it is clear which interpretation is applied. Unfortunately, the software industry, software engineering textbooks and scientific estimation studies do frequently not clarify how they apply the term 'cost estimate'. We argue that this lack of clarity may lead to conflicting estimation goals, communication problems, and, learning problems, and provide recommendations on how to deal with these problems.