Acknowledgments

By Capers Jones

There are two authors for this book, and we each want to acknowledge those who helped in its creation.

As always, thanks to my wife Eileen for her support of the many months of time spent in writing 16 books over a 25-year period.

While this book was in process, two friends and colleagues passed away. Special thanks should go to both Al Albrecht and Watts Humphrey.

Allan J. Albrecht was one of the original creators of function point metrics, without which this book would not be possible. Al and I first met in 1978 when he gave a talk on function points at the joint IBM/SHARE/GUIDE conference in Monterey, California. Although we both worked for IBM, Al was located in White Plains, New York, and I was located in ...

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