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 turn software estimation into a central business process.
Designed for: Organizations with ongoing software development activities.
Ongoing software development activities need scalable estimation support.
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.
We’ll help you find the right people, impart the skills they’ll need to be successful, develop processes for more effective decision making, and build-out the operational analytics framework of an enterprise-grade Estimation Center of Excellence (ECoE).
We'll meet with you and Program Management Office (PMO) stakeholders to identify pain points and goals and outline our approach for establishing enterprise estimation best practices.
We'll gather information about your current software estimation processes, associated systems, and data workflows. We'll guide and support enterprise historical software project data collection to establish a solid basis of estimation. We'll also conduct a maturity and estimation skills assessment.
We'll design and develop a set of software estimation processes, along with a roadmap for the implementation of the recommended SLIM® software applications. We'll generate historical trends by division or area of expertise to support early trend-based estimates. We'll also train ECoE staff on process inputs, activities, and outputs, and provide estimate validation checklists.
We’ll pilot the ECoE and work with you to work out operational issues before moving to full production. As ECoE operations expand across the enterprise, we'll support all aspects of estimation oversight and process improvement.
Increase software estimation accuracy and reduce risk
Improve your ability to communicate and negotiate with business stakeholders resulting in plans where everyone wins
Design and implement consistent estimation and closeout processes across the enterprise
Measure the productivity and quality impacts of your IT investments.
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
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
Custom software development company wins new business and negotiates $400K higher contract value by demonstrating higher productivity and reasonable costs compared to industry averages.
Case Study · Heuristic Solutions, LLC
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
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
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.