Estimate, Track, and Benchmark Your Software Projects
Make better business decisions at every stage of the software project lifecycle - estimating, tracking, and metrics analysis. Each of QSM's SLIM (Software Lifecycle Management) products is designed to deliver powerful results, either as a standalone application or as part of QSM's integrated suite.
Drawing from a database of over 14,000 verified software projects, the tools enable better decision making at every stage of the project development life cycle - estimating, tracking, and metrics analysis.
QSM by the Numbers
Founded in 1978, our estimation products and services are time-tested and backed by data. Let us help you negotiate achievable goals, set realistic expectations and communicate more effectively with your colleagues and customers.
14000
project database
46
years in business
100000000
saved by our clients
Our Clients
Trusted by Fortune 100 companies across the globe, QSM offers you multi-national experience and the most competent professionals in the software measurement and estimation business.
What's New with QSM?
Learn more about software estimation best practices, risk management, software trends, and the latest research from the QSM database of 14,000 completed software projects.
This study provides a long-term perspective using data from 14,000+ software projects completed and put into production between January of 1980 and the present day.
Quantifying software project risk and having a systematic way to accounting for it in software estimates helps firms determine how much contingency (or management reserve) is needed to protect against factors like scope growth, lower than anticipated productivity, or technical challenges that keep teams from executing project plans as originally intended. When risk mitigation is an explicit part of the estimate, we can set reasonable client and management expectations and negotiate practical project plans with a higher likelihood of success.
Bottoms-up planning requires much more detailed information on Work Breakdown Structures, tasks and resource types that are simply not available at this stage of decision-making. Estimation times can take many weeks to months to try and derive this level of information and can involve many subject matter experts whose time is better spent defining the customer solution than trying to create detailed plans when the scope is ill defined. Any changes to the bottoms-up estimate assumptions require additional, lengthy and costly rework cycles.