This book is dedicated to Allan Albrecht of IBM, a pioneer in bringing economic measurement to software. Allan and his colleagues were the first to develop function point metrics and therefore allow standard economic measures to be applied to software.
This book is also dedicated to the officers and members of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) who have continued to advance the cause of measuring software economics. The existence of function points and the IFPUG organization have led to further measurement studies carried out by Peter Hill and his colleagues at the International Software Benchmark Standards Group (ISBSG), as well to studies carried out by many affiliated national groups such as the Australian, Netherlands, Japanese, ...