Practitioners Knowledge Representation A Pathway To Improve Software Effort Esti

The Main Goal Of This Book Is To Help Organizations Improve Their Effort Estimates And Effort Estimation Processes By Providing A Step-by-step Methodology That Takes Them Through The Creation And Validation Of Models That Are Based On Their Own Knowledge And Experience. Such Models, Once Validated, Can Then Be To Obtain Predictions, Carry Out Risk Analyses, Enhance Their Estimation Processes For Projects And Generally Advance Them As Learning Organizations.emilia Mendes Presents The Expert-based Knowledge Engineering Of Bayesian Networks (ekebns) Methodology, Which She Has And Adapted During The Course Of Several Industry Collaborations With Different Companies World-wide Over More Than 6 Years. The Book Itself Consists Of Two Major Parts: First, The Methodologys Foundations In Knowledge Management, Effort Estimation (with Special Emphasis On The Intricacies Of Software And Web Development) And Bayesian Networks Are Detailed; Then Six Industry Case Studies Are Presented Which Illustrate The Practical Use Of Ekebns.