COSMIC: The Common Software Measurement Consortium

In this issue of the IT Metrics & Productivity Journal the first article by Charles Symons, Joint Leader of the Common Software Measurement International Consortium, examines the economic benefits that could be obtained by relevant parts of the UK software industry using a metrics program to help achieve reasonable target improvements in productivity and in estimating accuracy for software development and maintenance.

The second article by Pam Morris, CEO of Total Metrics, Austrailia, introduces another more recent functional method known as COSMIC-FFP, which enables all the functionality that is delivered and worked on by the supplier to be included in the sizing of these contracts.

The third article by Charles Symons compares the IFPUG function point method to the most primitive counting method known to man, stating that software re-measured using the COSMIC-FFP method more properly reflects the increasing size and complexity of software functions.

By selecting the link above you can read the following articles on:

   1. Successfully Exploiting Metrics & the COSMIC-FFP Method
   2. A Method for Sizing All Software
   3. Primitive Counting Systems