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SLIM-PPM Connector® Integrations

Many software development organizations today face challenges of resource management, including both demand and supply perspectives. SLIM‐Estimate’ s ability to integrate with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) applications provides a dynamic link between estimates and projects, enabling you to produce resource demand projections early in the planning stage.

  • What are your software project budgets and schedules based upon?
  • How do you know if you have the human resources to turn ideas into successful projects?

SLIM-Estimate determines if your software project goals are achievable, suggests alternative solutions that minimize risk, and computes the specific resources you will need and when. You choose priorities that balance project value, risk, and resource supply.

 

SLIM-PPM Connector for Clarity PPM® 

Gives You the Power to …

  • Validate initial software project estimates from Clarity PPM against QSM industry trends and your history to ensure that planned and budgeted cost and schedule goals are realistic.
  • Calculate alternative defensible software project estimates based on scope and your productivity, then update cost and budget estimates on the Financial Summary page.
  • Prioritize projects based on resource demand to ensure the right people are available at the right time.
  • Easily adjust software project initiation dates to avoid overcommitting key resources and resource conflicts.
  • Quickly see how budget and schedule changes impact software project resource requirements, and whether the associated risks outweigh the rewards.
  • Identify resource shortages in time to acquire the needed skillset.
  • Specify resource needs by characteristic, such as location, specific skill, or experience level, and
    reserve resource placeholders.
  • Quickly review cost options based on alternative resource characteristics and team skills mixes.

 

SLIM-PPM Connector for MS Excel® 

Gives You the Power to …

  • Define detailed roles based on skills and expertise needed for the project (subskill) and specify how the individual resources are assigned to the project.
  • Produce comprehensive effort and cost tables indicating the number of full or part-time subskill resources required each month, and compute total effort and cost values

 

QSM will work with you to customize our integration framework to work with your PPM solution. Contact us to learn more.