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Time Recording Methods
The following methods of collecting WORK EFFORT are believed to be the most common. Method-A: Staff Hours (Recorded)The daily recording of all of the WORK EFFORT expended by each person on Project related tasks e.g.a person who works on a specific project from 8 am until 5 pm with a 1 hour lunch break will record 8 hours of WORK EFFORT. Method-B:Staff Hours (Derived) It is possible to derive the WORK EFFORT where it has not been collected on an daily basis as in Method-A. It may have only been recorded in weeks, months or years.The suggested method for deriving the WORK EFFORT is outlined in the ISBSG Paper No.2 ("Derivation of Project Delivery Rate"). Method-C:Productive Time Only (Recorded)The daily recording of only the "productive" effort (including overtime) expended by a person on project related tasks e.g.using the same example as used in Method-A above, when the "non-productive" tasks have been removed (coffee, liaise with other teams, administration, read magazine, etc.) only 5.5 hours may be recorded.
(Source: ISBSG-Release 6 1999 )
Books on Software Metrics & Function Point
Analysis
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Practical Software Metrics
For Project Management And Process Improvement
Project managers:
Learn through practical examples what to measure and track, which will help
you more effectively manage your projects throughout the life cycle. Learn
how to measure and present progress. Most importantly, learn why you need to
measure and how important it is for you to tie your measurements to visible,
agreed-upon project goals.
This book emphasizes proven practices and results. These include:
- How measurement should be tightly linked
to organizational strategies
- How the metrics that engineers find
useful help project managers as well
- How metrics are used to achieve
continuous process improvement
- Which measures are meaningful for a
large organization
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Function Point Analysis:
Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects
Reader's
review from Denmark
This is a really useful book. It's a must if you need to look deep into the
Function Point Analysis and get a clear understanding of what this is all
about. As a professional and local instructor in Function Point Analysis
I've got a lot of inspiration from this book for my course. I believe that
beginners would gain even more from this book, however. It covers all topics
from the current IFPUG Function Point Counting Practices Manual (release
4.1). It guides you all the way through the whole process and presents a lot
of examples and additional explanations on the way.
Beside the operational guidelines this book also describe the Function Point
Analysis in the perspective of related topics as e.g. estimation and
benchmarking. Those topics are covered very thoroughly as well and the book
provides a good insight in how Function Points can be used as a management
tool.
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