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.
Data-driven solutions to your most important software project challenges.
Let's face it. Software projects are challenging!
IT Executives, PMO managers, and Software Engineers worldwide are struggling to deliver software projects on time and on budget, while providing high-quality product value.
With over four decades of experience working with customers like you, QSM understands the symptoms and root causes of most software project problems. Software development methodology, technology, and platform innovations have provided many benefits, but the fundamental behavior of software projects has not changed. Uncertainty about the software project scope is the most common challenge, and because software size determines the schedule, cost, and resource needs, the problems compound.
Can you relate to these common software project challenges? If so, QSM is here to help.
One of the biggest challenges in software development is producing accurate estimates when very little is known about the scope. Bottom‑up planning can take weeks and is often based on optimistic assumptions.
Software schedules and budgets are often set to meet business, marketing, or funding pressures — not delivery reality. This disconnect crates risk on both sides.
Large IT portfolios—spanning software, infrastructure, and transformation initiatives—are incredibly interdependent. A shift in one project’s scope, timing, staffing, or productivity can ripple across dozens of others.
QSM provides a clear, data‑driven view of software project performance by tracking progress based on work delivered, not just effort spent.
Traditional productivity metrics work well for repetitive manufacturing processes, but software development is fundamentally different: it’s complex, nonlinear, and highly variable from project-to-project.
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
A major transportation provider faced a huge tax liability related to a software portfolio that they acquired in a merger. QSM performed independent estimates of the cost to rebuild the applications and reduced their tax liability by $50 million.
Case Study · Major Transportation Provider
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
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 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
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
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
Major software engineering firm was able to show that a 50% staff reduction would not only result in huge cost savings, but also increase productivity to meet the aggressive time constraint. The second release delivered twice the functionality in 2/3rds the time.
Case Study · Major Software Engineering Firm
Custom software development company wins new business and negotiates $400K higher contract value by demonstrating higher productivity and reasonable costs compared to industry averages.
Case Study · Heuristic Solutions, LLC
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
QSM client uncovers an unrealistic vendor proposal and ineffective execution plan, avoiding major cost and schedule overruns of 9 months, 270 person-months, and $3.3 million dollars.
Case Study · Software Acquisition Department
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
QSM has over four decades of solving software estimation and performance problems. We offer a variety of solutions – products, services, or a combination of both - specifically tailored to your needs.
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