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The Difficulty of Software Measurement

by Robert D. Austin

I just returned from the annual meeting of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG). IFPUG is an organization dedicated to the idea of measuring software process, and once again they had a terrific conference. I presented a reprise of my "Avoiding Dysfunctional Measures," which explores how difficult it is to measure organizational activity, and how we sometimes assume things are working when they aren't. Afterward, one of the session participants asked a formidable question: "How do we get out of this terrible cycle of pretending things work when they don't?" My response was, "We have to start by admitting how difficult software measurement really is."

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The Difficulty of Software Measurement 3 November 1999

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