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Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 120.\nSPaMCAST 120 features my interview with Peter Thomas, a techincal specialist in software sizing and related fields at Steria.\xa0 He is also a member of the Counting Practice Committee in International Function Point User's Group.\xa0 We discussed the attributes of mature metric programs.\xa0\nPeter is a Chartered IT Professional with experience in project management, design, implementation, test, and deployment of defence and commercial software.He is recognised as a technical specialist in software sizing, IT measurement, and estimating, in Steria, IBM, and the IT industry. Steria is an IT Services company whose revenues have exceeded 1 billion Euros each year since 2005.\n\xa0He has been an International Function Point User\u2019s Group (IFPUG) Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) since the late 90s and a member of the IFPUG Counting Practices Committee, \u201cowner\u201d of International Standards Organisation (ISO) standard ISO/IEC 20926 since January 2007.He was the technical lead of IBM\u2019s Function Point Centre of Competence, which is the successor to Allan Albrecht\u2019s IBM Research team which developed the Function Point software sizing technique.\nHis role in Steria requires him to ensure productivity measurements are performed correctly, in particular Function Point counts to minimise contract penalties.\xa0 Also he advises executives responsible for delivery on methods to manage the productivity performance against other targets including off shoring and contribute to bids.\nHis role in IBM involved business operations measurement coordination, quality assurance reviews, estimating support to bids, and Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integrated (SEI CMMI) appraisals as well as occasional function point analysis to keep in contact with the real world of project delivery.\nSince 2004, he has regularly presented at technical conferences in the UK and USA and been invited to speak again as a result of the feedback.\xa0 In 2006 & 2010 he presented the Ian Drummond Memorial lecture at the United Kingdom Software Metrics Association annual conference.\nWork Website: IFPUG Counting Practice Committe Web Page: Linked In:\xa0Email: \nShameless Ad for my book! co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing is on the bookshelves!\xa0 According to Firas Al-Sheikh of Amman,Jordan, "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process,neither for you or your team."\xa0Have you bought your copy?\nContact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:\xa0 Voicemail:\xa0 +1-206-888-6111Website: Twitter: Facebook:\xa0 \nNext!SPaMCAST 121 will talk about burn down charts (and maybe burn up charts) which will be part of the Metrics Minute.