Software sizing and estimating: Mk II FPA (Function Point Analysis)
Software sizing and estimating: Mk II FPA (Function Point Analysis)
Estimation of information systems development efforts: a pilot study
Information and Management
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
Estimating software costs
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
Estimates, Uncertainty, and Risk
IEEE Software
Postmortem: Never Leave a Project without It
IEEE Software
A Causal Model for Software Cost Estimating Error
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Review of Surveys on Software Effort Estimation
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
How much does a vacation cost?: or what is a software cost estimate?
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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)
Over-Optimism in Software Development Projects: "The Winner's Curse"
CONIELECOMP '05 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers
An Integrative Contingency Model of Software Project Risk Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software effort estimation terminology: The tower of Babel
Information and Software Technology
Inconsistency of expert judgment-based estimates of software development effort
Journal of Systems and Software
Using planning poker for combining expert estimates in software projects
Journal of Systems and Software
A systematic review of quasi-experiments in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Exploring the human and organizational aspects of software cost estimation
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Investigating intentional distortions in software cost estimation - An exploratory study
Journal of Systems and Software
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
A framework for effort management in software projects
EASE'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
On using planning poker for estimating user stories
Journal of Systems and Software
Probabilistic size proxy for software effort prediction: A framework
Information and Software Technology
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Many software companies track and analyze project performance by measuring cost estimation accuracy. A high estimation error is frequently interpreted as poor estimation skills. This is not necessarily a correct interpretation. High estimation error can also be a result of other factors, such as high estimation complexity and insufficient cost control of the project. Through a real-life example we illustrate how the lack of proper estimation error analysis technique can bias analyses of cost estimation accuracy and lead to wrong conclusions. Further, we examine a selection of cost estimation studies, and show that they frequently do not take the necessary actions to ensure meaningful interpretations of estimation error data. Motivated by these results, we propose a general framework that, we believe, will improve analyses of software cost estimation error.