What are Mk II function points?
Nolan, Norton & Co., part of KPMG Management Consulting, hired Charles Symons in 1984 to advise clients on methods to improve their systems development performance. In the course of doing this he claims to have discovered weaknesses in Albrecht’s approach to function point analysis and developed the Mk II approach to overcome them. By 1987 it became a licensed product and is actively marketed. Symons claims that the Albrecht approach suffers from the following weaknesses: • It is often difficult to identify the components of an application. For example, what is a logical file? In 1984, there was insufficient guidance to make these determinations. • Albrecht had assigned weights to function point components based on “debate and trial.” • The above two criticisms were also leveled at the identification and weighting of Value Adjustment Factors. • Albrecht did not provide a means of accounting for internal complexity.
Nolan, Norton & Co., part of KPMG Management Consulting, hired Charles Symons in 1984 to advise clients on methods to improve their systems development performance. In the course of doing this he claims to have discovered weaknesses in Albrecht’s approach to function point analysis and developed the Mk II approach to overcome them. By 1987 it became a licensed product and is actively marketed. Symons claims that the Albrecht approach suffers from the following weaknesses: • It is often difficult to identify the components of an application. For example, what is a logical file? In 1984, there was insufficient guidance to make these determinations. • Albrecht had assigned weights to function point components based on “debate and trial.” • The above two criticisms were also leveled at the identification and weighting of Value Adjustment Factors. • Albrecht did not provide a means of accounting for internal complexity.
