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.
While certainly not a new concept, organizations continue to become increasingly aware of the value their own data presents for gaining insight to their software and IT acquisition performance. With the availability of data at an all-time high, how can an organization best approach leveraging their data at an appropriate investment level? QSM experts are passionate about applying dynamic solutions to organizations who want to establish or improve their data-driven decision making and management. We offer full-scope strategic planning and direct support options including appropriate software metrics identification, collection and organization that will take your organization to the next level of software data measurement. Additionally, our experts are highly experienced in getting the most value out of your data by conducting benchmarking services that provide insights to your organizational performance against a myriad of trends and data sources, including our QSM database, which is the largest validated software data repository in the world. Our benchmarking can also be used to support annual or other incremental reporting that demonstrates the performance of a specified area or the organization as a whole.
Harness the power of your organization’s software data to gain insights to best manage software development and support cost, schedule, and performance objectives.
Realize the goal of more data-driven decisions by leveraging the power of your own performance metrics for realistic and accurate software estimation and development.
We are pleased to announce that QSM has been included in the list of 2015 "Cool Vendors" in the IT Vendor Management category by Gartner, Inc.
In the Forbes article “Now Every Company is a Software Company,” David Kirkpatrick argues “regardless of industry your company is now a software company, and pretending that it’s not spells serious peril.
Download QSM Executive Primer Historically, only 20% of software projects are completed successfully and with software becoming critical to nearly every company and industry, having such a high rate of failure is simply unacceptable anymore.
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
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
We offer a variety of industrial-strength solutions to meet all needs and budget requirements, including complete solutions, "lite" versions, and incremental build-outs.
We typically recommend a staged implementation, as it enables a client to realize significant value while getting to know our process. We also suggest working with us on a single project, to start. You’ll get a good feel for QSM consulting, its benefits, and its suitability for your organization.
Please contact our solution design consultants at 800 424-6755 to discuss your individual needs and constraints. We’ll draft a statement of work, and then work with your procurement team to get a master service agreement in place. Once a purchase order has been issued, we’ll start to execute the project.