V. Study 3 pg317 -“The third study was designed to investigate estimates of more dynamic tasks, in which the components differed in scope and complexity. This study made use of a more realistic setting, asking professionals from the IT-industry to estimate a project that had already been completed in four different companies, where the actual numbers of work hours had been recorded.” -The authors referenced Forsyth and Burt (2008) who showed that time predictions can become less optimistic when a task is subdivided into segments. -To add the idea of segments into this experiment, the tasks are divided into smaller segments called “User Stories”. -A “user story” is a sentence in a software system. The participants in the experiment have an understanding