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 you negotiate achievable software project outcomes.
Designed For: Directors and delivery managers responsible for application development projects.
Are you tired of finding yourself committed to unrealistic schedules? Are you struggling to adapt to changing project requirements mid-stream? Do you frequently end up on the losing side of your negotiations with business stakeholders?
QSM is here to help by providing an independent, quantitative assessment of your project.
Based entirely on real, historical data, our single- or multi-release estimates can quickly determine the technical feasibility, schedule and cost realism, and product reliability of any proposal.
Best of all, we’ll explore and present practical alternatives that can get you to market sooner, lower your costs, and place you in the negotiation driver’s seat.
We'll meet with you to understand the specific needs and pain points of your software project and present our tailored approach.
We'll work with your software project managers and team leads to gather requirements and scope information, determine productivity assumptions, and identify software cost, schedule, and staffing constraints.
We'll reconstruct internal and/or vendor estimates and compare them to QSM's industry database to expose unrealistic expectations. We'll compute multiple alternative scenarios that show the time-effort tradeoffs and probability of achieving your most important goals.
We'll present detailed analytics for a recommended software estimate, plus worst-case and best-case alternatives, backed by industry trends and your historical data. We'll provide risk probability and contingency profiles to support commitment decisions.
Both developers and business stakeholders will have a realistic appreciation of the requirements–leading to a better understanding of feasibility
It doesn't have to take days or weeks of effort to generate alternative plans. We'll do it in hours–giving decision makers practical alternatives that result in better project plans
We'll help find the development scenario that provides the best value from a cost, schedule and risk perspective. This will help you save money and get to market as quickly as possible
Our objective analyses – supported with historic data – will put you in a position to negotiate win-win project outcomes with business stakeholders
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
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 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
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
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.