MCLEAN, Virginia – QSM, Inc., a leader in software and systems development estimation, planning, and project management, today announced that they have upgraded their integration of SLIM-Control to support IBM Rational Team Concert V3.0.1.
Rational Team Concert provides a unique team collaborative development environment enabling productivity and quality in modern software development. Project data in Team Concert, such as Work Items (stories planned; stories completed) and Quality (defects found; defects corrected) can be retrieved by QSM’s SLIM-Control to perform its project analysis:
- Variance analysis assesses project health and progress
- Adaptive forecasts-to-complete based on progress metrics indicated
“With SLIM-Control, our goal is to help our clients track their projects to their estimates and allow them to adapt as necessary,” says Larry Putnam, Jr., Co-CEO of QSM. “This integration allows users to bring their project data in RTC into SLIM-Control so they can quickly and easily forecast alternatives.”
“QSM’s offering, with its proven track record,” said Michael Loria, Vice President of IBM Rational Business Development, “operating on real project data in Rational Team Concert, can help our clients negotiate achievable goals, set realistic expectations and communicate more effectively with colleagues and customers in an increasingly collaborative fashion.”
The combined solution of RTC and SLIM-Control provides unprecedented potential for quality and on-time software development projects. QSM will be exhibiting at the 2011 IBM Software Innovate Conference. Please stop by Booth #409 for more information about this integration and more.
Founded in 1978 by one of the pioneers of software estimation, Larry Putnam, Sr., QSM, Inc. helps organizations measure, plan, estimate, and control software projects. It offers the SLIM (Software Lifecycle Management) Suite of tools, so managers can benchmark and forecast Agile, infrastructure, offshore/multi-shore, or ERP/package implementation projects. SLIM contains metrics from a worldwide database of more than 10,000 completed projects, enabling productivity benchmarking on the desktop. Using SLIM to dynamically run 'virtual project simulations," companies can model and forecast project releases to deliver on time, within budget with > 90% estimation accuracy. SLIM can also derive ROI achieved by Agile methods and other process improvements. QSM offers consulting and training to help accelerate this capability. Information is available at www.QSM.com.
Read more about QSM's integrations with IBM Rational Tools.