Research Challenges of Agile Estimation

Projects that are over-budget, delivered late, and fall short of user’s expectations have been a common problem area for software development efforts for years. Agile methods, which represent an emerging set of software development methodologies based on the concepts of adaptability and flexibility, are currently touted as a way to alleviate these reoccurring problems and pave the way for the future of development. The estimation in Agile Software Development methods depends on an expert opinion and historical data of project for estimation of cost, size, effort and duration. In absence of the historical data and experts the previous method like analogy and planning poker are not useful. This paper focuses on the research work in Agile Software development and estimation in Agile. It also focuses the problems in current Agile practices.

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