The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement

  • 14h 14m
  • IFPUG (ed)
  • CRC Press
  • 2012

The widespread deployment of millions of current and emerging software applications has placed software economic studies among the most critical of any form of business analysis. Unfortunately, a lack of an integrated suite of metrics makes software economic analysis extremely difficult.

The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), a nonprofit and member-governed organization, has become the recognized leader in promoting the effective management of application software development and maintenance activities. The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement brings together 52 leading software measurement experts from 13 different countries who share their insights and expertise. Covering measurement programs, function points in measurement, new technologies, and metrics analysis, this volume:

  • Illustrates software measurement's role in new and emerging technologies
  • Addresses the impact of agile development on software measurement
  • Presents measurement as a powerful tool for auditing and accountability
  • Includes metrics for the CIO

Edited by IFPUG's Management and Reporting Committee, the text is useful for IT project managers, process improvement specialists, measurement professionals, and business professionals who need to interact with IT professionals and participate in IT decision-making. It includes coverage of cloud computing, agile development, quantitative project management, process improvement, measurement as a tool in accountability, project ROI measurement, metrics for the CIO, value stream mapping, and benchmarking.

About the Editor

The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) is a nonprofit, member-governed organization. The mission of IFPUG is to be a recognized leader in promoting and encouraging the effective management of application software development and maintenance activities through the use of Function Point Analysis (FPA) and other software measurement techniques. IFPUG endorses FPA as its standard methodology for software functional sizing. In support of this, IFPUG maintains the Function Point Counting Practices Manual (CPM), the recognized industry standard for FPA. In order to complement the functional aspect of measuring software size, in 2011 the Assessment Practices Manual (APM) was released by IFPUG. The APM provides a quantifiable measure for the non-functional size of software development by means of documented guidance, definitions, and practices about non-functional software features and related sizing criteria. The chapter within this book titled "Software Non-functional Assessment Process (SNAP)" introduces the concept.

IFPUG also provides a forum for networking and information exchange that promotes and encourages the use of software product and process metrics.

In this Book

  • A Proposed Suite of Thirteen Functional Metrics for Economic Analysis
  • A Guide to Sizing and Estimating Projects Using International Function Point Users Group Function Points
  • Acquiring External Benchmark Data
  • Effective Applications Development and Maintenance and Support Benchmarking
  • Benchmarking Techniques and Their Applications in IT and Software Measurement
  • Effort Estimation for Software Projects
  • Software and Web Effort Estimation via Predictive and Diagnostic Reasoning
  • An Experience in Estimating Software Testing Effort
  • Producing Reliable Estimates through Quantitative Uncertainty Assessment
  • Optimism in Cost Estimation
  • The 13 Mistakes of Function Point Counting
  • Facilitating Function Point Counts: How to Ask the "Right" Questions and Get the "Right" Answers for an Accurate Count in an Efficient Manner
  • Measurement of Business Intelligence
  • Case Studies in Measurement-Based Decision Making
  • Measurement and Motivation
  • Achieving Business Objectives: Building a Software Metrics Support Structure
  • Maximizing Value: Understanding Metrics Paradoxes through Use of Transformation
  • Objective-Driven Process Improvement: Connecting Improvement with Business Objectives
  • A Framework for Implementing an Effective Software Development and Maintenance Metrics Program
  • Deriving Business Value Measures for Business Initiatives
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Function Point Analysis: A Possible Approach and a Practical Experience
  • Mobile Applications, Functional Analysis, and the Customer Experience
  • Cloud Computing Solution Measurement
  • Chapter Software Measurement and Agile Development
  • Agile Estimation Using Functional Metrics
  • Software Non-Functional Assessment Process
  • SOS—Application Quality Issues!
  • Software Measurement and Service Levels
  • Software Measurement in Procurement Contracts
  • Request for Proposal Management—Answering Metrics-Based Bids
  • Software Measurements: Effective Utilization of Software Testing Measurements
  • A Framework to Implement Statistical Process Control
  • Human Performance Improvement: Measuring the Real Change of Process Improvement
  • Understanding Your Organization's Best Software Development Practices
  • Process Improvement
  • Defects: Perspective on Prevalence and Prevention
  • How to Improve Your Development Process Using the Indicator of Productivity
  • Monitoring Productivity Using Function Points in Various Phases
  • Project Management and Measurement: What Relationship?
  • Project Scope Management with Function Points: Achieving Olympic Success on Software Intensive Projects with Scope Management
  • Scope Management Technique Using Sizing Process
  • Quantitative Project Management—Measurement-Based Techniques for Managing Scope
  • Requirements: Building a Solid Foundation for a Successful Project
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