QSM Annual IT Budgeting Solution
This white paper describes the process that QSM uses to assist clients in their annual IT budgeting process.
Article Categories: IT BudgetingEstimationCapacity PlanningDemand Management
Estimation
Using Software Project Metrics
Don Beckett explains how to use software project metrics to determine present capabilities, assess whether plans are feasible, and explore trade-offs.
Article Categories: MetricsProject ManagementBenchmarkingEstimation
Win New Business with an Agile Bidding Solution Based on SLIM
This article discusses how the SLIM agile bidding solution will save you time and money and allow you to make more informed bidding decisions.
Article Categories: AgileConsultingSLIM SuiteSLIM-EstimateEstimationCost
The QSM Agile Round Table
This article by QSM's Laura Zuber is the first of the QSM Agile Round Table series of publications that will present specific concepts and practices that connect SLIM and agile, creating common ground for the benefit of all.
Article Categories: AgileEstimation
Estimation Center of Excellence
This article for Projects at Work describes how an Estimation Center of Excellence leverages process, people and tools to accurately plan and estimate software projects.
Article Categories: EstimationPPMProject ManagementPortfolio Analysis
The Importance of Continuous Tracking
This Project Times article explains how project tracking, reforecasting, and post project review help monitor the software development process and improve outcomes.
Article Categories: TrackingSLIM-ControlEstimationProject Management
How a Center of Excellence Can Help Teams Develop Excellent Software
In this article originally published in SD Times, Doug Putnam outlines best practices for establishing an Estimation Center of Excellence.
Article Categories: EstimationProject ManagementProcess ImprovementProductivity
Sizing Matters
In this Projects at Work article, Jay Daniel explains how agile software development can benefit from a fundamental development practice like sizing.
Article Categories: SizingAgileEstimation
5 Core Metrics to Reduce Outsourced Software Project Failure
In this article for GCN, QSM's Joe Madden explains how the five core metrics of software estimation make a powerful tool that can be used at each phase of the software acquisition life cycle to help government IT program managers make more objective, quantitative decisions.
Avoiding a Doomed Software Project by Checking the Staff Build-up Plan
In this article for Contract Management Magazine, QSM's Gene Shuman identifies the key components of an effective staff build-up plan.
Article Categories: EstimationGovernmentTeam SizeCostDemand ManagementProject Failure