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 …

Project management planning and assessment are of great significance in project
performance activities. Without a realistic and logical plan, it isn't easy to handle project …

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 …

Software effort estimation is a significant part of software development and project
management. The accuracy of effort estimation and scheduling results determines whether a …

It is inevitable for any successful IT industry not to estimate the effort, cost, and duration of
their projects. As evident by Standish group chaos manifesto that approx. 43% of the …

Advances and innovations in the field of software engineering are increasing rapidly. This
sensitizes researchers to explore the various cross-cutting concerns incorporated to handle …

Currently, Agile software development method has been commonly used in software
development projects, and the success rate is higher than waterfall projects. The effort …

Agile is the leading type of software development methodology and have a higher chance of
success than non-agile projects. Collaborative and cooperative are characteristic of the …

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

Context: Software effort estimation from requirements texts, presents many challenges,
mainly in getting viable features to infer effort. The most recent Natural Language …