These are the question that CMMI doesn't cover and Function Point Analysis provides.

  1.  How much functionality do your systems provide? Can you measure it?
  2.  Is your company interested in improving its productivity? How productive is your systems' group? What is your productivity level?
  3.  Do you make estimates? Do you use the historical, hysterical or political estimating? Is there a better way?
  4.  Is your quality rate (defect index) improving?
  5.  Is your company cost conscious? Does it know where to cut? Can you prove it?
  6.  Can you measure the corporate contribution to you system accounting for changes in size, complexity and usage?
  7.  Are you understaffed, overstaffed or properly staffed? Can you prove it?
  8.  Do you select software? Can you quickly quantify Build vs. Buy or Product-to-Product evaluation? Do you still use RFP's?
  9.  Is outsourcing a good or bad idea? Can you prove it? Will you lead the discussion or just be a wait-and-see victim?
  10.  Is your company interested in improving its ROI? Would you ask for one, two, five, ten or fifty million dollars without calculating some kind of ROI? What was the ROI on your Information Systems budget last year?
  11.  Do you do quantified Productivity Risk Analysis?
  12.  What is the value of your IS Investment? Can you prove it?
  13.  Can you prove you are working on the right things?
  14.  What are the critical success factors in installing measures?
  15.  Can you measure your most valuable resource?
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