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.
What if your Project Management Office could leverage empirically-based models, historical data, and industry analytics to support all of your software development and implementation projects? What if all of your project managers could connect with a place of clear vision in your organization that sets the standard for IT excellence and governance? QSM provides world class estimation and measurement tools and support that can be the backbone of your PMO to bring consistency to your project and portfolio planning and oversight work.
QSM offers a variety of solutions, from tools to consulting, targeted to supporting your PMO.
Our best-in-class software project estimation tool immediately determines if a project is feasible or not.
Leverage historical performance trends with this powerful benchmarking and baselining tool.
Keep projects from veering off course with this project oversight and adaptive forecasting tool.
Confidently negotiate demand limits and match demands to your current resources.
We help you deploy and sustain comprehensive measurement capabilities across the enterprise.
Web-based tool that provides business intelligence and transparency into your portfolio of projects.
A global transportation and shipping company, maintaining 2500+ systems, leveraged QSM products and consulting and reduced the cost of rebaselining out-of-scope software projects by 90% and improved stakeholder satisfaction from more on-time deliveries.
Case Study · Global transportation/shipping corporation with over 280,000 employees world wide
A major utility company's IT department used QSM's software productivity benchmarking and IT portfolio budget analysis services, which identified $2.5M in probable overruns plus $5M in savings, and implements dramatically improved software estimation processes.
Case Study · Major Electric Utility Company
Corporate estimation group's process, requiring three people over a three-week period, realized over $57K labor cost savings by reducing the estimation team to one person, able to calculate and evaluate several software estimates in less than two days using SLIM®.
Case Study · Corporate Estimation Group
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
A major telecommunications equipment supplier implements a mature software estimation process across multiple teams, delivering a $150M system on time, with higher profits and product reliability.
Case Study · Major Telecommunications 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
One of the largest US financial institutions IT department implements Estimation Center of Excellence to stop software project cost overruns and saves over $1.2M.
Case Study · Financial services company with over 30,000 employees
When it comes to supporting your PMO, we offer a variety of solutions - from tools to services or a combination of both - specifically tailored to your needs.
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