The purpose of this presentation is to show how IFPUG developed SNAP into a statistically sound methodology. 

We will discuss how SNAP proceeded from its inception in 2008, to the beta test of 2012, through to its acceptance by IEEE (and now ISO) as international standards.  

We will also discuss some important IFPUG SNAP-related publications which IFPUG members should possess.   These discuss SNAP in detail to how to clarify differences between SNAP and function points, how to use SNAP to improve your software sizing and costing – especially for software development contracts, and how to build better defensible positions for your counting practices.

SNAP started, “as the project commenced by the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) in 2008 regarding Technical Sizing.  The initial results of the Project – A Framework For Sizing Non-Functional Requirements – were presented at the ISMA Conference 2008.  At that Conference, it was decided that the framework would be named the Software Non-Functional Assessment Process (SNAP), and that efforts for further development into a detailed method would continue with a new working group under the guidance of the IFPUG IT Performance Committee and with Christine Green as the SNAP Project Manager.” (from Dave Garmus, 2009).

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