I was on an effort many years ago that used FPA to establish construction and maintenance of our internal system while we were moving to CMM level 3. We carried out a successful effort and integrated our efforts into a Remedy application for future project tracking and future estimates. You will need to know the following to move forward successfully:
Since Remedy is a WYSIWYG programming tool, you cannot compare it directly to line-coded programming languages. Remedy is the equivalent of a 5th-generation programming language, allowing Remedy developers to develop far faster than coders write. We're talking around 6 orders of magnitude. You can compare Remedy to Remedy, but you can't compare Remedy to COBOL. FPA falls apart for a meaningful analysis between languages. Line-coded languages are very comment-intensive. Remedy doesn't provide a meaningful method to include comments with workflow. This, too, will skew your FPA between languages, since you will have to perform your documentation via some external method. Our team broke down workflow by relative complexity assigning a weight to each type of workflow and using the included number of actions and difficulty of the qualification to arrive at the total complexity of each piece of workflow. In this way, we were able to track each project by total pieces of workflow generated, tested, and implemented, using those numbers for future projects and extrapolating them to dollars and cents. Looking back, I still think it was an excellent system. Please let me know how your team decides to perform your analysis. Best of luck attaining CMMI level 3. I've always enjoyed working with CMMI. Regards, Jennifer Meyer Remedy Technical Support Specialist State of North Carolina Office Of Information Technology Services Service Delivery Division ITSM & ITAM Services Office: 919-754-6543 ITS Service Desk: 919-754-6000 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://its.state.nc.us E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties only by an authorized State Official. ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mario Roberto Porto Fº Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Possibly spam: Using FPA ( Function Point Analysis ) with Remedy ARS Hi there In my company we decided to use FPA ( Function Point Analisys ) as the standart to estimate construction and maintenance of our internal system ( We are also in proccess of establish CMMI level 2-3 ) Id like to know if someone already had the expirence of counting FPA for ARS development. If so, what are the points of attention, results, its ok or not. Thanks a lot Mario Roberto Sao Paulo - Brazil _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
