The function point communities have developed over 20 variations of function points.
But there are other important topics that the function point community ignores. We need a suite of related metrics that can handle corporate measurement issues:
- function points for software size
- hardware function points for engineered products
- data points for data bases and repository size
- risk points for hazardous situations
- value points that combine financial and intangible value topics
The idea is to have a fully integrated suite of measures for all important business and manufacturing topics. For a paper on this subject with samples send an email to Capers.Jones3@gmail.com.
Kapern Jones, VP and CTO, Namcook Analytics LLC