Pam Morris

CEO

Pam has over 20 years experience in software development and since 1989 has specialised in the area of software measurement and process improvement. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Graduate Diploma of Computing and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe and Monash Universities Australia. In 2006 Pam was awarded the Australian ITP Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to the IT Industry.

Pam is the Managing Director of Total Metrics and past president of the Australian Software Metrics Association (ASMA) where she currently holds a position on their Executive and the Benchmarking Database Special Interest groups. In 2007 she was elected as Vice President of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) and the co-author of their Benchmarking Standard. She represents Standards Australia as the international project editor of the ISO standard 14143-1 and 2 for Functional Size Measurement. She was the international convenor of ISO/IEC/WG12 group developing FSM standards from 1997 to 2004. She plays an active role internationally in the development of measurement standards and was a member of the International Function Point User Group (IFPUG) Counting Practices Committee in the USA from 1993 to 2000 and is a reviewer of the IFPUG documents. She is a member of the COSMIC-FFP Core Group who is responsible for in the development of the COSMIC-FFP FSM method. She has been an IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) since 1994, and a COSMIC Certified Practitioner and a Certified Software Measurement Specialist (CSMS Level 3) since 2006. In 2007 Pam was invited to be an international expert partner of the Chinese Software Benchmarking Standards Group.

Pam is a regular guest speaker on the topic of software metrics numerous international conferences in the USA, China , Japan, India, South Korea, New Zealand, Germany, South Africa , Spain, Italy and the UK.

Pam has combined her consulting experience in software metrics with her previous experience in the educational field to develop and present a variety of Software Metrics and Function Point Counting training courses. She has provided consulting services and presented training courses to over 200 corporate and government organizations in the USA, Japan, China, Australia, India and New Zealand since 1991.