20.500.12556/RUL-155605 Impact of competence on agile effort estimation in academic setting Effort estimation is an important activity in agile software development. The goal of the presented study was to determine the influence of individual competence on software development effort estimation. In particular, we measured both the accuracy of effort estimation and the duration of the estimation process itself, both for three different estimation methods. The subjects of our study were teams of students of a graduate-level software engineering course at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science. Based on the grades that individual students attained in their undergraduate study, we classified each team as “high-competence” or “low-competence” and additionally as “heterogeneous” or “homogeneous” (the criterion here being the variance of the members' average grades). We found out that there was no significant difference in effort estimation accuracy neither between high-competence and low-competence teams nor between heterogeneous and homogeneous teams, regardless of which estimation method was used. However, high-competence teams spent significantly less time on effort estimation than low-competence ones. Likewise, for two of the employed estimation methods, heterogeneous teams completed effort estimation in a significantly shorter time than homogeneous teams. These results might benefit both academic and professional community. agile software development competence effort estimation software engineering course student project agilen razvoj programske opreme kompetence ocenjevanje napora predmet programsko inženirstvo študentski projekt true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-04-08 11:16:12 2024-04-08 11:16:12 2024-10-05 04:29:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 2144–2159 iss. 11 Vol. 54 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 004.4 0038-0644 10.1002/spe.3333 191631107 Softw_Pract_Exp_-_2024_-_Furst_-_Impact_of_competence_on_agile_effort_estimation_in_academic_setting.pdf Softw_Pract_Exp_-_2024_-_Furst_-_Impact_of_competence_on_agile_effort_estimation_in_academic_setting.pdf 1 330D48CE4CEDB301E5164C31A64801FF 8ac1be146621569659f3859028ffcf62d293fe503e6a1a5615e29a72281553eb 7815ae7b-8243-11ef-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=192945 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3333 1 a55a635f-f588-11ee-937a-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=182578 Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko 0 0 0