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Quantitative assessment of software project risk due to uncertainty about the expected or estimated software size, productivity, effort, staffing, duration, and defects.
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Political Marketing and Software Project Estimation: Managing Promises and Realities
Find out how to base your commitments on realistic software project estimates.
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Political Marketing and Software Project Estimation: Managing Promises and Realities

Find out how to base your commitments on realistic software project estimates.
SLIM-Estimate Data Analytics
What Do Software Estimation and the NFL Have in Common?

SLIM-Estimate helps your business develop a game plan using data and analytics to drive decision making.

Cloud Migration Software Project Estimation
How to Mitigate Risk when Migrating to the Cloud

We use the QSM Industry Database to enable you to set reliable and predictable estimation targets for cloud migration projects.

SLIM Suite Software Project Planning Risk Management
There's No Risk in Software Project Planning

The QSM SLIM-Suite of data-driven tools helps businesses mitigate the risk in software project planning and execution.

SLIM-Collaborate Contingency Planning
SLIM-Collaborate 3.1 Brings Flexible Risk Management Online

This update introduces SLIM’s new contingency planning feature which brings additional risk buffering capabilities to the probability-based risk modelling available in SLIM-Estimate.
Software Project Risk Assessment
Bringing Transparency into Project Contingency Buffers for Schedule and Cost

SLIM’s contingency overlay charts make it easier to assess risk and allow estimators to visualize how different estimates compare.