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.
SLIM-Suite applications provide comprehensive and detailed software project intelligence from inception to completion. Each application contains data for multiple metrics about software project estimates, plans, development methods and technologies, actual performance, and more.
In today’s world, software project metrics and related information are stored and managed using a variety of enterprise management systems. The ability to exchange data among systems is critical.
The following lists ways you can take advantage of SLIM’s import and export features to better software project management:
APPLICATION
KEY METRICS
IMPORT/EXPORT CAPABILIITIES
Estimates of software size, effort, average staff, peak staff, labor cost, productivity, software quality, resource demand plan, WBS schedule, and probability ranges for core metrics.
Plan, actual, and forecast values over time (weekly, monthly) for software size (product construction), staff, effort, defects, plus an unlimited number of custom metrics.
Over 300 predefined software project metrics, demographics data, plus an unlimited number of custom metrics for completed projects.
Program and portfolio level aggregated estimates of software size, effort, average staff, peak staff, labor cost, productivity, software quality, resource demand plan, WBS schedule, and probability ranges for core metrics. Non-software task effort, cost, staffing, and duration, task dependencies.
Quantitative and qualitative metrics, query conditions, data set definitions, computed regression statistics, performance benchmarks, reference trend groups for linked SLIM-DataManager database.
Software size, effort, average staff, labor cost, other costs, productivity, software quality, resource demand plan, and probability ranges for core metrics – estimates and completed projects. Portfolio quantitative and qualitative data, including performance benchmarks and risk assessments.
QSM provides APIs for three SLIM-Suite applications:
SLIM-Suite version-specific API Packages contain documentation, API demo spreadsheets with sample code, and supporting workbooks for all three SLIM-Suite API demos. See SLIM-Suite API Demo Packages to download API packages.