Chapter 5. Estimating Based on Requirements

Nearly all software project teams must estimate the effort, time, and cost required to execute their projects. Estimation is a difficult challenge for which no magic solution exists. As with all technical practices, you’ll get better at estimation with experience, but only if you study how closely your estimates match the actual results. A full tutorial on software estimation is beyond the scope of this chapter. For a comprehensive discussion of estimation, see Steve McConnell’s Software Estimation: ...

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