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.
What do we call 37 years of pioneering research, analysis, and technology development?
A good start.
At QSM, we’re continually striving for new ways to help our clients improve the accuracy of their estimates, increase their productivity, reduce their risks, and make better decisions at each stage of the software development life cycle.
And this page is home to all of our latest and most advanced tools, features, services, and insights.
Major system integrator calibrated SLIM® to their historical data and improved their software estimation accuracy, with 83% estimates within +/- 10% of actual and 91% within +/- 20% of actual project outcomes.
Case Study · Leading System Integrator
One of the largest US financial institutions IT department implements Estimation Center of Excellence to stop software project cost overruns and saves over $1.2M.
Case Study · Financial services company with over 30,000 employees
QSM client uncovers an unrealistic vendor proposal and ineffective execution plan, avoiding major cost and schedule overruns of 9 months, 270 person-months, and $3.3 million dollars.
Case Study · Software Acquisition Department
A software quality manager for a major medical equipment supplier leverages SLIM® software project tracking and forecasting capabilities to reduce requirements growth, increase product quality, and negotiate realistic schedules and budgets.
Case Study · Major Medical Equipment Supplier
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
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
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