From the Publisher
From 1943 until 1979, software had no effective productivity metric at all. Since 1979, metrics have been developed, but a shortage of good tutorial materials to learn them has hampered their utility. FPA enables a new level of effectiveness. The function-point method is the most effective metric yet developed for information systems. It is now possible to use FPA to predict source-code size in any of 50 or more languages. A clear, pragmatic, practical book on a vital subject.
