Marie O'Neill

Senior Metrics Consultant

Marie O’Neill has worked for Total Metrics since early 2000. She is an experienced IT professional in the following areas: Workshop Facilitator for Software requirements analysis & consultancy / training in Software Project Estimation, Functional Size measurement and use.

Marie has been certified for many years as an IFPUG CFPS in IFPUG version 4 standards. She is also certified in MKII and COSMIC-FFP functional size measurement methods.

Marie is the Irish representative and Convenor (chair) on the ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC7 Working Group 12, which is developing the international standards for Functional Size Measurement (ISO 14143).

Marie has participated on the development of the ISO functional size measurement standards since 1998. She is a founding member of the CORE Team that developed the COSMIC-FFP functional size measurement method and has extensive experience in the use of all three FSM standard techniques (COSMIC, IFPUG and MKII).

Marie has worked as a measurement consultant since 1997 and works mainly throughout the UK, Australia and Europe providing consulting and training in Software Measurement. She has been responsible for introducing Software Measurement into a number of organisations and is an experienced Function Point Analyst and FPA Trainer. The analysis she has provided has helped her clients to evaluate different processes of software development, compare process effectiveness, and to refine the estimation of delivery dates, costs and effort required for projects.

Marie has extensive experience of Analysis and Design of corporate IT systems. She is a member of the UK Software Metrics Association Management Committee and is regularly invited to speak at conferences.

Prior to working as a consultant she was responsible for introducing Software Measurement into ESB (Electricity Supply Board, Dublin), using Function Point Analysis. The analysis she has provided has allowed ESB IT Services Department to evaluate different processes of software development in a comparative way, and to refine the estimation of delivery dates, costs and effort required for projects.