Estimation in agile environment using resistance factors

Abstract

The estimation of cost and effort is a critical task in Agile environment because of its dynamic nature. It has been observed that the current Agile methods mostly depends on historical data of project for estimation of cost, size, effort and duration and these methods are not efficient in absence of historical data. So there is need of an algorithmic method, which can calculate cost and effort of the project. In our previous work [2] some project-related factors and people-related factors were considered on the basis of which size as well as duration of the project was calculated. However, several other resistance factors may also affects estimation in the Agile dynamic environment. In this work an Algorithmic estimation method is being proposed that calculates more accurate release date, cost, effort and duration for the project by considering various factors. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm has been shown by considering two cases in which different levels of factors are taken and compared.