At an early stage in the development process, a development team must obtain insight into
the software being developed to establish a reliable plan. Thus, the team members should …

Background: Accurate effort estimation is crucial for planning in Agile iterative development.
Agile estimation generally relies on consensus-based methods like planning poker, which …

Background Scrum methodology is the most useful and adopted part of the agile
methodology. Many organizations are adopting Scrum for the last decade to meet their …

Hybrid agile is a software development model that combines the agile approach with a non-
agile development strategy. A software engineering team chooses the hybrid agile to best fit …

Estimating the cost and schedule of agile software projects is critical at an early phase to
establish baseline budgets and schedules for the selection of competitive bidders. The …

Problem: developers are increasingly adopting security practices in software projects in
response to cyber threats. Despite the additional effort required to perform those practices …

Cost estimation in software development is very important because it not only gives an idea
to all stakeholders on how long it takes to complete the product under development, but it …

In the planning of a software development project, managers must estimate the amount of
effort needed for distinct phases of activity. A number of rules of thumb exist in the literature …

Context Decision makers struggle to develop rough order of magnitude cost estimates early
in an agile software project's lifecycle, when lack of detailed functional user requirements …

Estimating during the early stages is crucial for determining the feasibility and conducting
the budgeting and planning of agile software development (ASD) projects. However, due to …