The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement

IFPUG

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780367381479
• eBook ISBN: 9781466581067
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Project Management
• Index: Business

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 nonpro

Index

A

• Absolute variance, 104
• Acceptable time interval, 513–514
• Acceptance testing team
  • defect removal effectiveness of, 613
  • evaluation of, 623–626
• Acceptance tests (AT), 613
• Accidental barriers, reduce, 344
• Accountability in project managers, 91–93
• Accuracy, estimation of, 555
• Activity groups, 706
  • FP estimation by, 710–711
  • productivity average evaluation of, 715
• Adapted Test Point Analysis (ATPA) technique, 152, 155–159
• Adaptive maintenance, 572
• Added functionalities (ADD), 575
• Ad hoc software supply, 570–574
• Adjusted functions, 801
• Agile
  • measurement and planning, 462–464
    • comparison of, 466–467
    • ideal time, 465–466
    • next release prediction, 469–470
    • planning poker, 467–468
    • story points, 464–465
    • test points, 466
    • velocity, 468–469
  • techniques, 484
  • vs. traditionally planned development, 461–462
• Agile Alliance, 455, 456
• Agile development
  • current state of, 455
  • fundamentals of
    • manifesto, 455–456
    • scrum, 458–...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section I Insights from the Experts: Introduction
• Section II Benchmarking: Introduction
• Section III Estimation: Introduction
• Section IV Function Points: Introduction
• Section V Measurement Programs: Introduction
• Section VI Metrics for the CIO—Business Value: Introduction
• Section VII New Technologies and Environments: Introduction
• Section VIII Non-Functional and Agile: Introduction
• Section IX Outsourcing: Introduction
• Section X Process Improvement: Introduction
• Section XI Productivity: Introduction
• Section XII Project Management: Introduction
• Index