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Subject:Re: paying by the word From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT)
Ned:
To estimate using Function Points, an analysis tool is needed that has the capability to properly partion the functions into roughly equal size pieces. Else, as you say, the "functions will be whatever size they need to be". Use Cases lack such a capability.
Richard Lewis
Ned Bedinger wrote:
.....I think I see why FP Analysis was useful as a sort of Black Box meets
Use Case analysis. I can see it as a platform for planning end user
documentation, and with refinement maybe even as a framework for
collecting tech writing productivity metrics. That is to say, FP's focus
on user functional requirements and UI design would be welcomed
groundwork on any End User doc project I can think of at the moment. I
don't really see how a pay schedule or work schedule based on FP would
work--one wants a standard to measure work against, but what standard is
there when topics and functions are whatever size they need to be?
Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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