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In agile environment, the software is developed by self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Agile promotes ad hoc programming, iterative, and incremental development and a time-boxed delivery approach. Agile is always flexible to changes. Estimation approaches of agile are very different from traditional ones. However, research involving estimation in agile methodologies is considerably less advanced. This paper focuses on the estimation phase of agile software development which probably ranks as the crucial first step. Poor decisions related to estimation activity can cause software failures. In agile environment in order to support estimation, some delay-related factors are proposed that can delay the release date of the project and also a new Sprint-point based estimation tool (SPBE) is designed and developed in excel. The proposed tool is based on the Sprint-point based Estimation Framework and place major emphasis on accurate estimates of effort, cost, and release date by constructing detailed requirements as accurately as possible.
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Popli, R., Chauhan, N. (2019). A Sprint Point Based Tool for Agile Estimation. In: Hoda, M., Chauhan, N., Quadri, S., Srivastava, P. (eds) Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 731. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_6
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