Features and Benefits
Quick Start Wizards SLIM-Estimate's Quick Start Wizards provide answers to frequently asked business questions quickly and efficiently with minimal input.   Ideal for early estimates when you don't have lots of information.	Flexible Size Estimation  Rapidly respond to new technology, or build custom solutions for any special client need with spreadsheet sizing models that seamlessly integrate with the five sizing methods already built into SLIM-Estimate.
Lifecycle Templates Why reinvent the wheel?  At your fingertips are the best-in-class industry recognized lifecycle templates.  Standard with QSM's SLIM-Estimate.	Automatic Solution Generator Enjoy the expertise of a senior consultant at your fingertips.  Enter your project constraints and SLIM provides multiple "can-do" alternatives to solve the problem.
Leverage Your History Customize estimates with the push of a button.  Just select the relevant projects from your history and their characteristics (efficiency, staffing, reliability, phase customization, etc.) will be transferred to your new estimate.  Instantly customize SLIM-Estimate to your environment and methods.	Industry Knowledge Bases Sanity check your estimate against QSM industry trend lines and your history.  You can rely on SLIM-Estimate to empower you with credible historic data available only to QSM clients.  It's the proven data you need.  Tap into this knowledge.
Smart Components Eliminate double entry and laborious updating with dynamically linked objects that update your assumptions and solutions as you graphically operate the cockpit controls.	Dynamic Solution Profiling "What if?" is a question that often comes up.  With SLIM's Dynamic Solution Profiling, you can evaluate different options at the click of the mouse.  Solutions change instantly on the screen, allowing you to explore alternatives quickly.
Integrated Reporting When reports and graphs don't show the entire picture, SLIM's Smart Notes feature allows you to store relevant textual descriptions for use and reuse in an easy-to-find and intuitively linked manner.  The next time you need a custom report or note, it will be at your fingertips.	Interface to MS Office And The Web SLIM applications are designed to work in your office environment.  When it's time to create presentations or collaborate on the web, SLIM lets you easily export data to MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or HTML formats.
Built-in Value When you buy SLIM-Estimate, you also receive two other valuable tools.  SLIM-DataManager helps you build a repository for your software project data. SLIM-MasterPlan rolls up multiple estimates into a comprehensive planning view for managing everything from incremental deliveries of a single project to strategic planning for your entire software development portfolio.	Integrates with SLIM Suite  QSM offers a complete suite of estimation, tracking, and benchmarking tools to assist you with every stage of software life cycle management. SLIM-Estimate is fully integrated with SLIM-DataManager, SLIM-Control, SLIM-Metrics, and SLIM-MasterPlan.  Whatever your needs, QSM offers a solution you can grow with.

Create a Master Plan for your Software Development

SLIM-MasterPlan  delivers a new level of sophistication to the SLIM tool suite. Our clients use SLIM-MasterPlan to aggregate project estimates developed in SLIM-Estimate and ongoing project plans from SLIM-Control into a comprehensive overall view suited for:

• Incremental Delivery Planning: ideal for product managers who need to juggle resources over multiple releases of a single product line.
• Enterprise Planning:  facilitates strategic planning for multiple software product lines or serial releases of a single product.
• Lifecycle Support Planning:  helps cost analysts price out support costs for major programs over an extended time horizon.
• Integrated Project Planning:  helps project managers estimate individual subsystems as well as systems integration and testing effort for the entire system.

Put QSM's Proven Performance to Work for You

QSM consultants are recognized experts in the field of software development planning and control.

All licenses for SLIM-Estimate and SLIM-MasterPlan include documentation, responsive phone consultation, and technical support.

E-mail QSM for more information on SLIM-Estimate for Windows and for a free demonstration CD, or call 1 (800) 424-6755 to speak with a QSM representative.