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QSM has had the privilege of working
with many leading organizations over the years. We are delighted
to offer links to their web sites.
QSM Partners
For a listing of our QSM Partners, see
the Contact Us page.
Technical Partners
Primavera
Systems has specialized in
providing companies with project portfolio management software and
services since 1983. Their innovative solutions help nearly 60,000
companies around the globe achieve business success by effectively
forecasting, planning, managing and executing their portfolio of
projects, product development, capital planning, and resource planning.
Primavera products deliver proven return on investment by helping
companies improve portfolio decision making, complete high-quality
projects faster and with lower costs, attain project and service
consistency through reuse of best practices, and gain insight into
an organization's entire portfolio of projects underway, especially
at-risk projects.
Associate Partners
 Klipp
Consulting -- Klipp Consulting
guides and mentors its clients in optimizing the value and productivity
of their Information Technology processes and resources through
the application and implementation of the best practices represented
in the Capability Maturity Models.
 Master
Systems -- Master Systems
offers advisory services related to software improvement, with emphasis
on helping organizations change the ways they work, particularly
with respect to model-based improvement initiatives (SEI CMM, ISO
9000, ISO 12207, Baldrige). Master Systems focuses on deployment,
implementation, transition: getting best practices into practice.
 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.
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