For the people who count

The Value of Function Point Workbench™

Function Point Workbench™ is a LAN ready Windows-based software tool that makes it easy for an organization to implement the Function Point Analysis technique for sizing and evaluating software.

Function Point Workbench™ is specifically designed to be scaleable for effective use by individual counters as well as for large scale, distributed IT environments.

Function Point Workbench™ provides an ideal counting tool for all situations and for all software sizing needs.

Release 7 is now Available

Function Point Workbench™ Release 7.0 offers a host of new, easy to use features to expand the existing capability. These include, for example, specialist project and portfolio sizing functions that are smart enough to work from what you already know to quickly determine an "order of magnitude" size of an existing system flagged for replacement or asset valuation. Productivity and benchmark reporting is enabled by integration with SMR (from Q/P Management Group). New reports provide even more views of your project. And, of course, there are yet more ways to count function points "smarter and faster".

What is in Release 7?

Who Uses Function Point Workbench™

Software Project Managers for the control and communication facilities necessary for effective management

Software Executives because it illuminates the effectiveness of the software delivery / support processes.

Business Executives because it allows business management to communicate and define software applications.

Metrics Programme Managers because of the in-built configuration management of the counts.

Function Point Counters for its structured embedded methodology facilities to reuse all or parts of previous counts and build templates for current and future counts.

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The Value of Function Point Analysis

Software organisations in all industries suffer from the inability to effectively estimate software projects, value software assets and objectively assess the software production and support process and environment. These are critical capabilities essential to the business of managing a dynamic IT environment.

Function Point Analysis has proved itself as an effective mechanism to provide the quantified basis on which such assessments and analyses can be made. Function Point Analysis focuses on the inherent functionality delivered in the software as understood and recognised by the customer, or end user of the software. Function Point Analysis has proven its consistency and value as a communications vehicle and evaluation technique. It is increasingly the software sizing metric of choice for developers and customers.

The wide range of uses for Function Point Analysis underscores the critical need for an effective method and tool that not only supports the counting process but also provides essential input to estimation, measurement, assessment and business analysis processes.