   What about function point in game development?
  Well,I'm researching about function point and I dont find any document about that in game development. The "official" function points documentation (http://www.ifpug.org) approaches the development of traditionals projects.I need some metric to determine the productivity of my development team in GD. Somebody can help-me?Thanks   
  As far as I am aware, the general consensus among real-world software developers is that function point analysis is a complete crock, even in its original domain of business applications. Presumably the reason nobody has tried to apply it to game development (or at least, nobody is talking about their attempt) is that it really isn't remotely suited to the job.To be blunt, nobody has a bulletproof metric for software creation, period. Game development tends to be just a slight bit more psychotic than most other branches of software, which means there is even less chance of finding a useful metric.Estimating progress of a software project takes two things: a deep familiarity with how software is created, and efficient feedback from the actual developers. It's a mental skill that one has to hone over time; Excel spreadsheets will not do that job for you.   ;  I wouldn't say function point analysis is completely useless. It works pretty well in well understood and mature domains like construction/finance/consultancy. I think in 10-20 years software and games will also be better understood domains and then function point analysis may be a good tool to use. If we still need programmers then that is :c)   ;  Out of curiosity, what do you base that assessment on? I've talked to programmers and architects across several domains who all have a very dim view of FPA. I've read the official documentation, and I can't see how it could possibly produce useful data, except maybe by sheer luck.Do you have any documented sources who have measurable indications that FPA isn't useless?   ;  Back in the days (before Y2K) I did some freelance work when I was a grad student mainly developing java applications for a large software development organisation. One of the applications that I co developed was an application which facilitates function point analysis. FPA had successfully been used in that organisation for over ten years, but until 1998 they just wrote their data down in excel etc. This company (Vertis, now part of Ordina) mainly focuses on developing custom made database applications for the public sector. The volatility of this domain is quite low compared to other software domains so I don't know how representative this organisation is compared with other software organisations. I don't know if they still use it but I think FPA is still used within public sector related organisations.   