Partners

Associate Partners

IBM Rational -- QSM is a proud member of the IBM Ready for Rational Program. IBM® Rational® software helps organizations deliver greater value from their investments in software. This includes automation, state-of-the-art collaboration, and continual measurement through the IBM Rational Jazz® technology platform, IT and systems governance, and more.

QSM's Rational solutions include:

• QSM Measurement and Estimation Plug-in to Rational Method Composer (RMC)
• QSM SLIM-Control Integration to Rational Team Concert
• QSM SLIM-Estimate Plan Export to Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM)
• QSM SLIM-Estimate Integration to Rational Focal Point

OfficeWork Software -- OfficeWork Software is leading the charge in software solutions that help organizations operate at peak efficiency. OfficeWork Software is unique in providing a comprehensive solution that is universally required to achieve business goals. These tools deliver the blueprint every organization needs at an operational level to successfully manage its projects, people and processes.

Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. -- Carol Dekkers is president of this industry leading software metrics consulting firm based in Seminole FL. Their specialty is the successful implementation of software metrics and function points to achieve project management and software estimating excellence. Carol is a leading industry expert in Function Point Analysis, software estimation, software measurement, quality, and project management. She is a past president of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and continues to serve in a leadership role representing IFPUG at ISO meetings. She was recently selected as one of ASQ's 21 New Voices of Quality for the 21st Century.

Corvus International -- brings together a unique blend of Human Capability Development, Organizational Development and Software Engineering practice. Corvus provides training, consulting, mentoring, design and implementation services in a range of technical practices including metrics program development, technical team development and leadership development. Phillip Amour, VP for Systems Development at Corvus, is a contributing editor at ACM's flagship magazine, Communications of the ACM, writing a popular column entitled "The Business of Software". He is also the author of "The Laws of Software Process", (Auerbach Publishers 2003).

Affiliations

International Function Point Users Group IFPUG -- The International Function Point Users' Group (IFPUG) is a membership-governed, non-profit organization committed to increasing the effectiveness of its members' information technology environments through the application of function point analysis (FPA) and other software measurement techniques. IFPUG endorses FPA as its standard methodology for software sizing. In support of this, IFPUG maintains the Function Point Counting Practices Manual, the recognized industry standard for FPA.

Project Management Institute -- Since its founding in 1969, Project Management Institute (PMI) has grown to be the organization of choice for project management professionalism. With almost 45,000 members worldwide, PMI is the leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional certification that more and more organizations desire for their project leaders.

Software Engineering Institute -- The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology [OUSD (A&T)]. The SEI contract was competitively awarded to Carnegie Mellon University in December 1984. It is staffed by technical and administrative professionals from government, industry, and academia.