Certification of AD&M benchmarking service providers
by Pierre Almén
There could be different reasons to benchmark the development and maintenance of an organizations’ applications. This includes: comparison of productivity, quality, time to market, cost efficiency, need of improving project estimation capability etc.
ISO/IEC 29155 provides the overall framework model for IT project performance benchmarking and describes all required activities for a successful benchmarking.
The IFPUG Benchmarking Certification represents a standard method through which IFPUG confirms that a benchmarking service provider has fulfilled the requirements deemed necessary to be competent to conduct a benchmark analysis, through the investigation of evidence upon criteria that were defined based on applicable ISO/IEC 29155 tasks and activities.
About Pierre Almen
Pierre is the current President of ISBSG. He is an experienced IT manager, management consultant and bench- marking specialist. He is an honorary fellow in the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and founder of a software metrics network at the Swedish IT Association.
