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 rescue troubled software projects from spiraling out of control.
Designed for: Executives saddled with “runaway” IT projects.
Are you stuck with an IT project that consumes money like a black hole, yet never seems to approach a delivery date?
QSM can help you get it back on track.
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 also help you evaluate a host of “what if” alternatives–such as reducing scope or changing staffing levels–that could lower costs or compress scheduling even further.
Best of all, we’ll provide ongoing monthly health checks to ensure your project stays on the right track, for good.
We’ll meet with your team and the client to determine all the viable completion scenarios that should be explored.
We'll work with your Program Manager to reconstruct your timeline, staffing, effort-cost, scope construction, and product reliability to-date. Then we'll determine how much scope remains to release a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
We'll use our predictive curve fit model to forecast your end date, effort-cost, scope completion, and defect burndown based on actual software productivity. We'll evaluate alternative forecasts and plans to explore the impacts of changes to scope, staffing, and product quality before they occur, helping you chart the most successful course forward.
We'll present the recommended and alternative forecast findings to executive management and continue to perform ongoing project performance checks as actual data becomes available, either weekly or monthly, and revise forecasts as necessary.
Our monthly health checks provide quantitative transparency into contract execution, so there’s no room for surprises
Our forecasting algorithm acts like a GPS – revising end date, cost, and reliability predictions based on actual completion data and real-time updates
Benchmarking data is a natural byproduct of our monthly health checks–and it puts you in the driver’s seat for planning future projects
Objective analyses, supported by real, historical data, can help you 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
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
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.