@inproceedings{13451, author = {Steven Fraser and Barry Boehm and Hakan Erdogmus and Magne J{\o}rgensen and Stan Rifkin and Mike Ross}, title = {The role of judgment in software estimation}, abstract = {The consequences of poor (or good) judgment in estimation are reflected in software quality, cost, time-tomarket, and operational reliability. While judgment plays a prominent role in aviation and medicine{\textendash}the same care arguably needs to be taken in making tradeoffs impacting software development. This panel will bring togetherpractitioners to discuss aspects of judgment in software estimation including a discussion of current practices and influences from other disciplines.}, year = {2009}, journal = {International Conference on Software Engineering}, volume = {Companion Volume}, pages = {13-17}, publisher = {IEEE}, }