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Chapter 23, Problem 23.4E
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Reducing risk in Cost estimation:
The possible techniques to reduce risk in cost estimation are as follows:
- Develop a prototype for those system parts that are hard to estimate in order to find out what problems are likely to arise.
- Software requirements are partitioned into critical, desirable, and gold plating. If necessary, gold plating is eliminated.
- Reuse software to reduce the amount of required estimation and the overall costs...
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