Who can count function points?
Anyone can count function points! All it takes is a one day class and a little on-the-job training by an experience counter and a person is on their way. Given this, should the counters be technical people or users (customers, clients or whatever the current politically correct term is for people that use these systems)? Is there any advantage to having a senior (more expensive) person count? Should everyone in the organization count function points or should it be a small group? Do you need a single function point guru? The answer is that there is no answer. Any of these scenarios can succeed, and all of them have failed in one organization or another.
