QSM provides unparalleled support throughout the product acquisition, installation, and implementation process.
For nearly five decades, QSM has helped organizations bring data-driven discipline to software project estimation, tracking, and benchmarking. Our methodology and tools turn project complexity into measurable, defensible outcomes.
For individual projects or programs in need of support, QSM delivers our best and brightest estimation, tracking, and benchmarking experts–equipped with the world’s most powerful software, techniques, and practices. We believe strongly that every software project can benefit from our data-driven consulting services, which are backed by the largest verified software project database in existence. Read more about our individual solutions below, and learn how QSM intelligence can strengthen, enhance, rescue, or transform your most important projects or programs.
Based on historical data, a quantitative project assessment that explores practical alternatives.
Get runaway projects back on track with a quantitative assessment and what-if alternatives.
We focus on technical feasibility, schedule, cost, and product reliability and present practical alternatives.
Our experts size your applications using industry recognized sizing methods including function points.
Find out if your software team’s productivity and quality compare to organizations building similar products
Improve SLIM tool adoption by leveraging our templates, advice, training, and articles.
Take advantage of the SLIM data in other enterprise applications using our developers' solutions.
Feasibility studies, continuous forecasts, and creating benchmarks are three basic rules to help you and your PMO get the most out of estimating efforts.
How QSM SLIM software estimation tools manage the uncertainty of early critical planning decisions.
Get the most return on your investment by utilizing QSM’s metrics based SLIM-Suite of estimation tools.
Large US Federal agency hires QSM to produce the quantitative evidence they need to terminate a bad contract, saving $30M. Institutionalized use of quantitative methods for acquisition and management of software projects saves over $25M.
Case Study · US Federal Government Agency with nearly 50,000 employees
A major transportation provider faced a huge tax liability related to a software portfolio that they acquired in a merger. QSM performed independent estimates of the cost to rebuild the applications and reduced their tax liability by $50 million.
Case Study · Major Transportation Provider
A major utility company's IT department used QSM's software productivity benchmarking and IT portfolio budget analysis services, which identified $2.5M in probable overruns plus $5M in savings, and implements dramatically improved software estimation processes.
Case Study · Major Electric Utility Company
A government client hires QSM to perform a software productivity benchmark and learns they are overstaffing their projects. Cutting their team size in half enabled delivery of a higher quality product with twice as much functionality at a savings of $4.3M dollars.
Case Study · Government IT Developer
US Federal agency leverages QSM Consulting and SLIM® estimation software to evaluate vendor bid for mission critical project. Analysis showed that the vendor proposal was unattainable; alternative plan reduced software project costs by $600K.
Case Study · US Federal Government Agency
We offer a variety of industrial-strength solutions to meet all needs and budget requirements, including complete solutions, “lite” versions, and incremental build-outs.
We typically recommend a staged implementation, as it enables a client to realize significant value while getting to know our process. We also suggest working with us on a single project, to start. You’ll get a good feel for QSM consulting, its benefits, and its suitability for your organization.
Please contact our solution design consultants at 800 424-6755 to discuss your individual needs and constraints. We’ll draft a statement of work, and then work with your procurement team to get a master service agreement in place. Once a purchase order has been issued, we’ll start to execute the project.