Features

SCOPE is the most sophisticated function point counting  and IT Metrics Benchmarking software available on the market today. SCOPE specializes in full configuration management of your function point counts as well as portfolio management of your application and project metrics. It has been designed for organizations that need to invest in a tool to enable them to support a mature metrics and function point counting program. SCOPE exports count results into state of the art project estimation tools, such as KnowledgePlan™ so you can estimate effort, cost and schedule.

SCOPE is the only Metrics and Functional Sizing tool  that is fully multilingual (10 languages) and multi-user. Its metrics collection is conformant to ISBSG , ISO 14143 and ISO 20976.  It implements the IFPUG 4.2 and 4.3 Function Point Analysis (FPA) technique for sizing software. It is a powerful combination of easy to use features and comprehensive functionality. SCOPE makes it easy to measure the Functional Size and collect effort, defect, cost and environment factor metrics for both software applications and  projects.

SCOPE was designed by certified metrics specialists and certified function point counters with over 20 years metrics and benchmarking experience. It is the only IT performance metrics software  that works the way you work i.e. it recognizes that your software projects often impact more than one application and each software application may have multiple change requests in a Release; and they all need to be sized and have their metrics recorded. SCOPE allows you to record multiple change requests across multiple applications and then aggregate them to automatically size a Project. It also enables you to functionally size and record metrics for multiple Change Requests on the same application in a Release. The Change Requests sized can belong to different Projects and their size can be aggregated at Project Level or you can report the total Release size for an Application. You can keep detailed documentation around your metrics so you have an ongoing history of all your projects and Change Requests, and accumulate knowledge of your software applications functionality over time. Your metrics analysis and Function Point counting just gets progressively faster, the more information you add to your metrics model.

Functional Features

Graphically models and sizes software functionality using IFPUG Function Points at all stages of development from planning through to production, every change request or enhancement can be counted and its size separately reported. Provides a comprehensive model of your software applications

Repository of Applications allows you to record all  Release Metrics, and all their Change Requests with their functional sizes. Comparative reporting for Application Maintenance and Support Metrics including Effort expended on different maintenance and support activities, severity of defects delivered into production and Application utilization.

Repository for all your Projects, record which applications the projects impacted , the size of the impact andall effort, defect and cost metrics. Perform comparative reporting on project related metrics such as : project delivery rate (PDR in hours per function point), defect density (defects /1000 fps), cost per function point etc.

• Reports the functional size of sub-systems, releases, and 'what-if' scenarios for input into project estimates of cost, resources and duration.
 
• Enables Project Delivery Rates to be assigned to different functional areas to provide estimates of effort to deliver using different cost drivers.
 
• Enables Earned Value Reporting on functionality delivered versus functionality budgeted to be delivered for quantitative object project status reporting.
 
• Enables recording and reporting of NESMA   Impact function points
 
• Provides full metrics analysis, trends reporting, comparative ISBSG industry benchmarking for all your Development and Enhancement projects and Applications Maintenance and Support metrics
   
• Provides a quantitative audit trail of functional changes to each software function over time; mapping change to a specific change request, release and/or project. Will automatically record for each change to the count, who changed it, and on which date. 
 
• The only function point counting tool that tracks and measures project 're-work' and scope variations for input into pricing negotiations.
 
• Collects mandatory Project Metrics and Maintenance and Support Metrics for productivity comparisons and automatic submission to the International Software Benchmarking Standards Groups (ISBSG) Project and Maintenance and Support Repository.
 
• Imports all details of your functional size counts from MS Excel® spreadsheets
 
• Has fully flexibility on which projects you accept to update the baseline Production Release of an Application and which ones you want to hold over and still keep the Change Request sizing details. You can size your development or Enhancement project and include conversion functionality, then update your baseline Application count and select to exclude conversion from the Baseline. When you next have enhancements on the application, use the baseline model and then record one or multiple enhancements and choose which ones will update the baseline.
 
• Allows multiple concurrent independent functional size measures on the same baseline, without overwriting, but combines them to update the baseline.
 
• Allows a single repository of functional size measures  for all your applications and projects that can be updated simultaneously by multiple counters at multiple locations (SCOPE CORPORATE™ Multi-user)
 
• If you do not already have a baseline count for your software, then SCOPE allows you to count your enhancement projects individually then select to merge them to create your template baseline count.
 
• Imports existing counts from Excel® and if required select to merge them to create an aggregated framework of all the functionality for your future baseline count
 
• Imports  all existing detailed FP count related data from Function Point WORKBENCH™ - imports FPW 4 to FPW 7.

System and Technical Features

• Imports your existing function point counts from older generation function point counting software repositories including Function Point WORKBENCH™ and MS EXCEL®
• User can dynamically select the language that SCOPE displays screens and reports e.g. English, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch etc.
• Stores all historical counts in a controlled central corporate database that is maintainable by multiple counters at the same time
• Microsoft® compatible database for flexible customized reporting. Includes over 40 reports that can be viewed online and with a mouse click stored as a WORD, EXCEL , HTML document.
• Windows compatible short cuts for quick data entry
• Designed by internationally recognized Functional Sizing expert Pam Morris author and reviewer for IFPUG CPM 4 series
• Windows compatible : 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 
 

Functional Sizing  - Elementary Process Screen -  LHS Screen showing the functional decomposition of the software down to elementary process level. The RHS screen shows how the elementary process Create Assignment has been categorized as an Input that was changed by the Change Request and was awarded 6 function points. The impact of the project on the Application baseline is highlighted with the coloured arrows. SCOPE allows multiple change requests to impact an application. Each Change Request can be recorded simultaneously. A Change Request impacting the software is linked to a Project. SCOPE allows for multiple projects to impact an Application at any one time.
 

Functional Sizing - Data Groups Screen - SCOPE can record information about Data Groups (Internal Logical Files and External Interface Files) to the level of individual RETs and DETs if required, then automatically derive complexity and function points. Import details from your data dictionary and have SCOPE use its customisable template capability to automatically generate expected elementary processes. Develop fast early counts in minutes.
 

Screen showing the List of Applications for the Organisation. Each Application can be recorded to have multiple Releases and within each Release , multiple Change Requests can be counted. A Project can be recorded to impact multiple Applications and have many different Change Request counts associated with it. Baseline Counts are stored under Production Releases. The baseline size over each release and the size of each Change Request recorded as an Enhancement Count for the Release