Using
Measures to Understand Requirements
Many approaches fashionable with technically-oriented practitioners clearly fail to satisfy the need for clarity of requirements. Some even trade short-term acceleration for long-term maintenance & support costs. What is missing? What can be done to ensure that new technologies help rather than hinder? This paper suggests some simple process improvements that might have made all the difference in a number of cases.
Improve
M&S Productivity
Helpful analysis and key action priorities for improving software Maintenance and Support(M&S) productivity
Performance Assessment
To compare project performance, identify improvement opportunities and make good estimates for future projects, you need to assess the performance of existing projects.
Sizing E-commerce
There is an increasing demand to size web based e-commerce applications. This paper will outline some sizing techniques.
The Importance of the Size of Software Requirements
Size measurement methods have played a key role in helping to solve real-world problems of estimating, supplier/customer disputes, performance improvement and the management of outsourced contracts. This paper discusses the history of functional size measurement and the status of the COSMIC-FFP method.
Applying Software Metrics
Starting a Measurement Programme
A measurement programme is part of a means to an end (one or more business objectives). To deliver any benefit the objective(s) must be clearly understood first and then the measurement programme must be designed to support them.
Estimating and Risk
Estimating Size
Estimating Size from detailed requirements and detailed designs.
Estimating Cost, Duration, Effort, etc
Developing estimates of cost etc from measurements or estimates of size in combination with other constraints.
Measuring Requirements and Changes
Measuring the functional size of change requests and estimating their impact in terms of cost, duration, effort etc.
Measuring Performance
Performance Measurement and Analysis
A range of services to help organisations determine what measures, data collection and analysis techniques are appropriate.
Benchmarking
An accepted technique used to calculate and improve organisational performance with respect to appropriate benchmarks.
Tools and Techniques
COSMIC FFP
A method designed to measure the functional size of real-time, multi-layered software such as used in telecoms, process control, and operating systems, as well as business application software, all on the same measurement scale.
IFPUG Function Point Analysis
The original method of sizing, it is currently at version 4. This method is still the most widely used and works well in the business/MIS domain. It is applicable to object oriented developments.
Mark II Function Point Analysis
This method assumes a model of software in which all requirements or ‘user functionality’ is expressed in terms of ‘Logical Transactions’, where each LT comprises an input, some processing and an output component.
Applying Software Metrics
Manager’s Guide to Software Measurement 
Understand how disciplined, quantitative practices can be used to control costs and maximise productivity.
Uses and Benefits of Function Point Analysis
Learn how FPA can help your projects manage the acquisition, development, integration and support of software systems
Tools and Techniques
COSMIC FFP for Sizing & Estimating MIS and Real-Time Software Requirements 
Learn how to measure the software component of software-intensive systems using the latest ISO-standard method
Practical use of IFPUG Function Point Analysis
Learn the most popular technique for measuring the functional size of software applications and projects
Practical use of MkII Function Point Analysis
Learn the UK Government’s preferred technique for measuring the functional size of software applications and projects
When someone says ‘Function Point Analysis’ what passes through your mind? A crude method that was all the rage ten years ago for helping measure productivity of software development? Or one of the most powerful tools in the systems analysts’ and project managers’ arsenal for controlling requirements, estimating and project performance?