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.
QSM helps guide your organization on the path to quantitative project intelligence.
Late to market, over budget, poor quality, no credibility with the business stakeholders — Unfortunately, this is the sad reality of many government and commercial IT software portfolios today. QSM consulting provides quantitative business analytics for large software portfolios, transformational programs, and strategic projects that equip executives to make better, more informed business decisions, save millions of dollars, and reduce resource waste. We have solutions for the portfolio level, program/project level, as well as workshops for building analytical skills at the individual level.
QSM is here to help by providing an independent, quantitative assessment of your project.
We’ll help you build an enterprise demand model that lets you confidently negotiate demand limits and match demands to your current resources.
At QSM, we specialize in helping organizations design, develop, deploy and sustain the robust, comprehensive estimation capabilities they’ll need to support a growing, thriving software development enterprise.
Like software archeologists, we’ll start by analyzing the history of your project and its current status. Then, we’ll quantify its remaining scope and reforecast the road to completion.
We'll build you a productivity baseline for your current situation, and then we’ll help you identify why your 1-star and 5-star projects perform the way they do.
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
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
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
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
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
A global transportation and shipping company, maintaining 2500+ systems, leveraged QSM products and consulting and reduced the cost of rebaselining out-of-scope software projects by 90% and improved stakeholder satisfaction from more on-time deliveries.
Case Study · Global transportation/shipping corporation with over 280,000 employees world wide
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
Sometimes you just want external experts to provide objective assessments of your process and projects. We have over 40 years of experience solving problems for clients, plus an external database of over 14,500 software projects to deliver transparent, credible results.
We can provide solutions to fit your timeframe and budget while adding significant value to address your challenges.