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.
QSM helps you level-set expectations for future software project success.
Designed For: Executives who want to better understand IT productivity and quality assessments and comparisons.
Do you really know if your IT investments are paying off? Do you know how your software team’s productivity and quality compare to organizations building similar products?
QSM is ready to help.
We'll build you a productivity baseline for your current situation, and then we’ll help you identify why your 1-star and 5-star projects perform the way they do.
Finally, we'll compare your organization to others building similar systems–using historical data to capture reality-based expectations, and to show how your team truly measures up.
We’ll meet with your team to understand what productivity or process objectives you are looking to achieve and who you would ideally like to be compared to.
We'll work with you to identify a representative group of software projects and meet with representatives of each to collect core metric data - software size, effort, duration, and defects, along with key project and development environment characteristics, such as application type, industry, development methods, and more.
We'll compute and baseline the Productivity Index (PI), computed using SLIM's Software Production Equation, and other core metrics, representing the current, average capabilities of your organization. Using our historical database of over 14,500 projects, we'll create a benchmark that aligns with your competitors and conduct a detailed comparison of your performance against the benchmark.
We'll provide a comprehensive software productivity and benchmark report to executives and project teams that lists project performance ratings, from worst (1 star) to best (5 stars). We'll make recommendations for process improvements and help you build a business case for change.
Justify new investments by building a business case for change, or rove the ROI of past investments by comparing newer project performance to a previous baseline
The biggest cause of project failure is unrealistic expectations. Use baseline data to show when expectations are falling outside the range of reality
Use historical data to make decisions based on real past performance – eliminating schedule and cost overruns, and position yourself to negotiate win-win project outcomes with business stakeholders
Win more software contracts by demonstrating superior performance
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
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
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
Sometimes you just want external experts to provide objective assessments of your process and projects. We have over 40 years of experience solving problems for clients, plus an external database of over 14,500 software projects to deliver transparent, credible results.
We can provide solutions to fit your timeframe and budget while adding significant value to address your challenges.