Reality Check on software development

John Scanlon  May 25 2010 12:44:34 AM

Here is something we developed about 10 years ago which is still in use by one of our clients.  As development managers you may or may not use Function Points, but if you do, give it a whirl:

http://realitytest.isbsg.org

A function point is standard metric for the relative size and complexity of a software system:

http://foldoc.org/Function+Point+Analysis

A few year ago we did an analysis of our own average function point price for our own development projects using Lotus Notes / Domino Web Development.  We turned out to be very low cost because we utilise this platform in conjunction with a Rapid Application Development approach and have a large library of existing re-usable routines with can use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
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