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Agile Software Development Methodology and its Cost Estimation Technique


     

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This study bridges the gap between the software Industry and Academia through improvisation of some technique into one methodology. The main objective of this article is three-fold: 1) to focus upon development practices used by small software firm. 2) to study the documentation practices in small software firm and suggest one type of documentation practice which will be beneficial for the current practice 3) to find the solution of problem faced by the small firm while materializing the requirement story board drawn by the client into cost estimation. Together with these a simple and easy to use empirical formula for the evaluation of the cost for the Agile development of a medium-size software has been proposed from the past resultant data of development

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Agile, SDLC, Software Development, Extreme Programming, SCRUM
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This study bridges the gap between the software Industry and Academia through improvisation of some technique into one methodology. The main objective of this article is three-fold: 1) to focus upon development practices used by small software firm. 2) to study the documentation practices in small software firm and suggest one type of documentation practice which will be beneficial for the current practice 3) to find the solution of problem faced by the small firm while materializing the requirement story board drawn by the client into cost estimation. Together with these a simple and easy to use empirical formula for the evaluation of the cost for the Agile development of a medium-size software has been proposed from the past resultant data of development

Keywords


Agile, SDLC, Software Development, Extreme Programming, SCRUM

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