Contact QPMG QPMG Articles QPMG principals and associates author articles on various subjects of interest to the software measurement professional. This well informed management presentation can help you understand how functional metrics will help you produce better, more reliable project estimates throughout the software development life cycle. Unfortunately in numerous situations, COTS solutions have proven to be a great disappointment. This article will discuss a technique that has proven to be successful for projects in evaluating the compatibility of COTS products to customer requirements. The technique, called Function Fit Analysis, is based on function point analysis.
Most people agree that function points work perfectly well when measuring business systems.
This article gives the answers. Function Points and the SEI Capability Maturity Model - Function Point Analysis can be demonstrated to be the metric of choice for many of the activities required by the SEI CMM at Level 2. Its use in managing requirements, project plans, subcontractors and documentation can greatly benefit projects. This article highlights those critical success factors that organizations have found to be instrumental in the development and implementation of an effective measurement program. It also demonstrates some of the lessons learned by organizations encountering obstacles in this endeavor.