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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.
It’s frightening how many organizations hold this belief–and yet it’s easy to understand why, when nearly 80% of all software development projects fail to meet their budget, schedule, or functionality requirements.
But here the dirty little secret: it isn’t the really the projects that are failing; it's the failure to negotiate reasonable customer expectations.
When organizations set arbitrary constraints based on wishful thinking or external pressures, those projects are doomed to failure before they even begin.
So at QSM, we use data-driven estimation (based on 10,000 real-life software projects) to right this ridiculous wrong–saving billions of dollars, reclaiming millions of lost hours, and turning software project failure into a distant memory.
QSM helps you control schedule and cost while improving software quality.
Avoid project disaster by calculating realistic cost and schedule and managing stakeholder expectations.
QSM helps you produce smarter, more accurate estimates.
QSM tools and services help you manage resource demand and plan for capacity.
QSM tools and services help you find the true capabilities and limitations of your vendors.
Our quantitative approach helps you prove what's reasonable–and what isn’t.
Get impartial assessments of your projects, based on verifiable industry standards and benchmarks.
Compare estimates to actuals in real time and forecast to complete.
Estimation isn’t about seeing the future; it’s about using the past to make better decisions in the present.
By looking at verified data from tens of thousands of past software projects, we can quickly and easily determine whether today’s projects are poised for success, or doomed to failure.
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A major telecommunications equipment supplier implements a mature software estimation process across multiple teams, delivering a $150M system on time, with higher profits and product reliability.
Case Study · Major Telecommunications Equipment Supplier
Global systems integrator establishes enterprise software project estimation, tracking, forecasting, and benchmarking process and realizes ROI from $11M to $400M.
Case Study · Global systems integrator with over 100,000 employees
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 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
Corporate estimation group's process, requiring three people over a three-week period, realized over $57K labor cost savings by reducing the estimation team to one person, able to calculate and evaluate several software estimates in less than two days using SLIM®.
Case Study · Corporate Estimation Group
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
Major software engineering firm was able to show that a 50% staff reduction would not only result in huge cost savings, but also increase productivity to meet the aggressive time constraint. The second release delivered twice the functionality in 2/3rds the time.
Case Study · Major Software Engineering Firm
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
Now that you know the truth about software project failure, we invite you to further explore the ways QSM tools and services can save your organization time and money.
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