CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch6 6c PK
Estimation in Agile projects
Introduction to Agile software development
Software development process or life cycle is a commonly used term in today's rapidly developing software industries. There are different models are available which are used to enforce the structural development of software products. Agile software development methodology is one of the commonly followed practices which takes iterative approach for software development in contrast to plan-based or traditional methods. It mainly focuses on the adapting to requirement changes and delivering in high quality product in iterative work-process.
In this chapter, we will explain the purpose of estimates in agile software development first, later we will discuss estimation techniques and re-estimation and how these are different in other software development processes.
Estimation in Agile Model
Purpose
Estimation techniques
Re-estimation
Estimation in Waterfall Model
Estimation in Spiral Model
Estimation in Iterative and Incremental Model
References
- Software Development process [1]