What's New at QSM?

Joe Madden joins QSM team to lead consulting practice as Vice President of Professional Services

An enthusiastic client of the QSM SLIM tool suite for 10 years and co-author of the book IT Measurement: Practical Advice from the Experts, Joe Madden brings with him over 16 years of business experience in management and IT consulting, including 10 years with "big four" consulting firms KPMG and BearingPoint where he lead a profitable practice team that sold and delivered many high-visibility projects.
Madden will be responsible for leading continued growth of the QSM consulting practice with an expanded set of solution offerings to include: software estimation, function point analysis, IT program and project management, independent verification and validation (IV&V), process improvement, benchmarking, research, SLIM API programming, and outsourcing of key functions within an IT organization that require specialized skills such as estimation, metrics, and quality management.

QSM is well known in the marketplace as an estimation tools vendor, but few of QSM's own clients are aware of the company's consulting services capabilities and track record of hundreds of successfully completed consulting engagements.
"That is going to change," says Joe Madden. "With a 30 year reputation as a thought leader in IT management best practices, a historical database of over 7000 IT projects to draw upon and a client base that extends across the globe, QSM is perfectly positioned to be a significant player in the consulting business. Our goal is to become a trusted business advisor to all of our clients. Our growth strategy includes offering the full suite of consulting services to established tools clients, forming strategic partnerships with consulting companies who share our commitment to client success, and leveraging our status as a small business to compete for and win government contracts."


QSM has teamed up with the Ready for Rational Partner Program to bring the added value of QSM's renowned Project Estimation and Planning, Measurement, Project Control and Adaptive Forecasting processes to Rational RMC users. SLIM/RMC plug-in processes support the achievement of higher maturity levels such as SEI’s CMMI and ISO 9000, which are of increasing importance to Rational customers. Read more about this exciting development...

On the Downloads page, the API documentation for SLIM-Estimate, SLIM-Control, and SLIM-DataManager has been improved and expanded with lots of user-friendly examples to help you get up to speed quickly. There is just one API download for the entire SLIM-Suite - you can download it from either the SLIM-Estimate, SLIM-Control, or SLIM-DataManager sections of the Downloads page. You'll need to use your API password, though - if you haven't yet registered for a username and password for the clients-only areas of the QSM web site, you can do so here.

While you're in the clients-only area, check out the new additions to the Templates page - we've added an Agile estimation template, one for sizing Data Warehouse projects, and we've updated our RUP template.

A Code Counter links page has been added to the Support section of the web site. It contains links to code counters for Java, VB, HTML, Perl, C++, Oracle PL/SQL, and many other programming languages.

Press Releases

September 16, 2008: Data from thousands of software projects saves the day as Heuristic Solutions puts SLIM Estimate to work

June 11, 2007: QSM Announces Its SLIM-Suite and Project Management Methodology to Plug-in to IBM Rational Method Composer

March 10, 2006: QSM Software Almanac Unveils Development Trends, Provides Guidepost to CIOs and Development Managers. 

August 1, 2005: QSM Uncovers Characteristics of Best, Worst in Class Projects. 

Changes/additions to the QSM Web site:

October 18th , 2007: Updated training calendar with 2008 training dates, uploaded 2008 registration form.

October 04th , 2007: Added two new Rational pages, updated Rational overview page, updated sidebar links.

September 12th , 2007: Added new button to home page, linked to two new Rational pages.

September 9th , 2007: Updated downloads page, uploaded new files.

September 4th , 2007: Updated events calendar with QSM Europe users conference.

August 27, 2007: Updated events calendar.

August 20, 2007: Updated what's new, downloads pages.

August 13, 2007: Added Rational press release, updated european training page.

August 07, 2007: Updated Clients page.

July 27, 2007: Updated access registration, products, support pages.

September, 2005:  Added 2006 training dates to training page, uploaded 2006 training form and changed registration page.

August 23 , 2005:  Added two more papers to Resources page, Featured Research pages. Updated What's New page.

August 22 , 2005:  Updated Templates page with new templates.

August 18, 2005:  added tracking tags to entire site, added new training directory, changed security to main site.

August 5, 2005:  Updated What's New page, Clients page, home page. Created new content for resources pages.

August 2 , 2005:  Updated What's New page.

July 29 , 2005:  Added Press release.

February 2, 2004:  Changed Express training schedule, uploaded updated registation form, updated changes, additions to web site list. Cleaned out images folder on server.

January 23, 2004:  Added blurb on John Bryant, Jolt award to home page, updated what's new page with news on new employees.

January 22, 2004:  Fixed broken link on clients page.

December 11, 2003:  Added review quotes to Five Core Metrics page.

December 10, 2003:  Added SLIM-Suite brochure and updated all products pages with links.

December 3 , 2003:  Added newsletter signup form and linked to it from home and resources pages. Added Estimate Express class schedule and registration information, updated sidebar links from all training pages.

December 2 , 2003:  Updated Events Calendar, modified CSS.

November 5 , 2003:  Updated Clients list, modified CSS for site.

October 30, 2003:  Changed request feature and feedback form code so sender's email address will be in "From" line of email submission. Updated What's New page.

October 29, 2003:  Added registration forms to training page.

October 28, 2003:  Added new paper to Articles page and links to news flashes.

October 22, 2003:  Uploaded QSM news flash pages.

October 21, 2003:  Updated Code Counters page.

October 9, 2003:  Added extra information on Function Points back to FP gearing factors page.

October 3, 2003:  Added Advanced SLIM classes and 2004 training dates to US training schedule page.

October 2, 2003:  Revised clients list.

October 1, 2003:  Added Estimate Express to register access and product registration pages.

September 18, 2003:  Uploaded new demo files and revised Demo Downloads page.

September 16, 2003:  Added 10 Year Benchmark paper to Articles page.

September 11, 2003:  Updated downloads and partners pages.

September 10, 2003:  Added new conference dates to Events calendar.

August 19, 2003:  Complete redesign of the web site.

July 29, 2003:  Updated SLIM-Control and subsidiary pages to reflect 6.0 release, added new conference dates to Events calendar.

July 14, 2003:  Updated SLIM-Estimate page to reflect 6.0 release, added links to Feedback Form and Feature Request to Support page, added si123 to Partners page.

July 2, 2003:  Updated Product Registration, Product Support Registration, and FAQ search pages. Added "New Features in SLIM-Suite 6.0" FAQ, and inserted new training date on training page.

May 8, 2002:  New graphics on products page, new link color on all pages, made C release page live and added winzip links, new graphics on Home page, minor facelift on Support page, added new article to Resources page.

April 8, 2002:  Removed User's Conference links from home, what's new pages, archived conference pages locally.

March 10, 2002:  Updated training page, removed May training class from training schedule.

March 8, 2002:  Added redirect pages for old FAQ pages and one other page that no longer exists (FAQ2.html, faqs.html, sb_06.html) and process_imp.html.

February 10, 2002:  Added links to Estimate Express page to 9 sidebars on main pages. Removed notices temporarily posted regarding ISP service outages to downloads and forms pages.

January 31, 2002:  New Estimate Express pages, added INCOSE conference to Events Calendar, updated What's New page.

January 29, 2002:  Modified 2 FAQ's to update information and added 2 new FAQ's.

January 25, 2002:  Updated changed link on Resources page and minor edits to Downloads page. 

January 24, 2002:  Updated User's Conference and User's Conference Registration pages to reflect changed conference dates.

January 17, 2002:  Minor changes to SLIM-Estimate page.

January 15, 2002:  Updated Partners, Resources pages to bring style in line with newer style.

January 10, 2002: New SLIM-Metrics page, added 7-page feature tour, system requirements page, product review pages.

January 7, 2002:  Added link to Citrix server on Support page, new Citrix instructions page and link.

January 3, 2002: Updated contact information on Contact Us, Training pages for QSM Metric Consult.

December 19, 2001: Updated Conference calendar, What's New page articles list.

December 18, 2001: Updated book order, Resources pages.

December 14, 2001: Minor facelift for main pages, updated clients list on home page.

December 12, 2001: Updated UK training dates, added descriptions for new Function Point classes available at QSM Europe Training Center.

December 10, 2001: Minor facelift for main pages, updated clients list on home page.

November 27, 2001: Removed Help the Homeless paragraph from What's New page, revised FAQ on accumulation of rate metrics.

November 20, 2001: Added new clients to home page scroller.

November 7, 2001: Updated training page with 2002 training dates.

November 6, 2001: Updated events calendar to include SEPG and SM/ASM.  Added QSM Softtware Research Bulletin to QSM Database and Resources pages.

November 5, 2001: Updated client list and scrollers on home page, products page, clients pages.  Added QAI to clients/partners page.  

October 30, 2001: Removed 2000 training dates from training page.

October 29, 2001: Posted 2002 User's Conference announcement and registration page, reconfigured links to 2000 conference highlights from home page, updated What's New page.

October 23, 2001: Added new product registration form and link to product registration from support page.

October 17, 2001: Posted press release to announce launch of QAI India's online benchmarking service. Updated navigation buttons on press releases 1-4 and press release section of What's New? page as well as scroller on home page.

October 11, 2001: Updated Netherlands training information on Training page.

September 19, 2001:  Added new articles to Resources page.

August 24, 2001:  Updated What's New page, added new FAQ's.

August 15, 2001:  SLIM-Estimate page revamped, features tour with screen shots added, also product brochure and product review in .pdf format.

August 14, 2001:  Added search utility to Resources page to make articles and white papers searchable.  Added 3 new articles to the PDF section.

July 27, 2001:  Updated SLIM-Estimate page with new graphics, new navigation sidebar.

July 24, 2001:  Added 41 new FAQ's to searchable FAQ's page, updated older FAQ's to newer format.

July 10, 2001:  Added Estimate Express page with downloadable product brochure.

June 12, 2001:  Updated training page, contact us pages.

May 29, 2001:  Updated Events Calendar, Clients pages.

May 23, 2001:  Downloads page redesigned, added PDF-format User's manuals for SLIM Suite 5.0b applications. Updated registration, book order, demo download, contact us forms.

May 22, 2001:  Contact information updated for QSM US and European Affiliates.

May 16, 2001:  Major upgrade of QSM support site.  Added tips and tricks, templates, sizing, FP gearing factors table pages, reorganized content.  Made FAQ's page searchable.

May 10, 2001:  Updated training page with European training dates.

May 1, 2001:  Updated demo download page with new SLIM-Estimate 5.0 demo.

January 2, 2001:  Added 8 new articles to the Resources page.

 
  
  
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