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Leveraging QSM's industry database of over 13,000+ completed projects, Katie Costantini takes a high-level look at changes to software schedules, effort/cost, productivity, size, and reliability metrics from 1980 to 2019.

Article Categories: QSM Database Database Data Agile Project Management Programming Languages Sizing Effort Productivity Schedule

An Analysis of Function Point Trends

By Donald Beckett

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This study looks at the QSM software project database and examines a set of validated projects counted in function points that have completed since the year 2000 to see what they tell about productivity, schedule, and staffing.

Article Categories: Function Points QSM Database Productivity Schedule Team Size Effort Programming Languages