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MeterIT-Project enables users to: 
* Assess and compare their software projects; 
* Create a calibration for estimating software projects; 
* Constitute a solid understanding of their development capability as a preliminary to new project estimation; 
* Create a reference collection of software project measurements, and;
* Obtain an internal benchmark of their project portfolio.

Software managers are aware that a realistic knowledge of their development capability is a prerequisite to any sound estimation of their new projects.
This awareness has always been difficult or impossible because of the absence of a particular management link: that is, the link between putting a number of analysts and programmers to project-work and balancing the budget of the project.
The understanding of the relationship between the application of the work effort and the characteristics of the delivered software product - for which a budget has been established - is much facilitated by collecting, analysing, and producing quantitative project ratios.
Software managers under pressure to focus on other critical aspects of project management may not have the time to figure out how to perform this task with paper, pencil and spreadsheets. MeterIT-Project is directly usable as it offers an embedded metrics guideline within a measurement framework.
MeterIT-Project is the software project measurement environment that software managers favour because it offers the necessary measurement guidance and at the same time facilitates the manager's perception of his project.

MeterIT-Project stores and maintains the measures of up to 500 projects in the project repository ProjectBase. Additional repositories can be created. It captures the development stage information of the project from the date at which the project is established.

Entering Measures
Measures can be entered manually or by importing an ASCII measurement file. 

Project Measures
MeterIT-Project accepts the following groups of measures: 
* Project Identification;
* Product Deliverable;
* Project Schedule;
* Project Effort;
* Project Staffing;
* Project Environment;
* Project and Application Types.

The evaluation of the product accepts either the size measure or the size estimate. In the case of size estimate, the uncertainty is accepted. Product sizing may be made in IFPUG FPA, MkII FPA, COSMIC, NESMA Function Points, Local Function Points, Lines of Code. Collateral and intermediary product-measures are also collected.

MeterIT-Project collects project management, and main phased-efforts in workdays. Option to collect either total project effort only or phased-effort. Also collected, project start date, end date, and calendar duration in days.

The peak number of development team members is collected. A choice of team's availability levels is offered for selection.

The Environment Evaluator evaluates the project environment by means of 15 environmental characteristics at three levels of evaluation. Thus allowing for more than 3,000 distinct environments. The resulting Environment Factor enables project comparison at comparable environment productivity. 

A facility exists to evaluate the average availability rate of the team members. Three staffing modes are available: Standard, Crashing, and Custom. This enables the comparison of projects at equivalency of availability rate.  

MeterIT-Project produces two categories of evaluations: Project performance factors and project statistical analysis. 

Project Performance Factors:

The performance factors include:
Project Development Productivity, Team Build up, Phased Effort Ratios (%), Environment Factor, and Staff Availability.  

Project Statistical Analysis:

A statistical analysis of the ProjectBase provides a series of histograms and scattergrams showing the distribution of the projects as per their main management parameters. They include the analysis of product size, project duration, development effort, Productivity and their relationship.

Pentium IV compatible or higher based personal computer;
32 MB of RAM minimum, 6 MB Hard Disk;
A mouse or compatible pointing device is required.
Windows XP or later.

Available by download for a 30 day Free trial.