Best-in-Class Systems and Software Project Estimation, Customizable to Any Design Process

Are spreadsheet estimates failing to deliver? Are you struggling to determine whether cost, schedule, and scope expectations are realistic or recipes for disaster? Are you having trouble aligning your "realistic" project or portfolio resource demand with fixed resource capacity? Then it’s time to graduate from clumsy spreadsheets to the industry’s best systems and software project estimation tool—QSM’s SLIM-Estimate.

SLIM-Estimate uses a proven top-down approach that minimizes the input information required to produce fact based, defensible estimates. In addition to software cost estimation, SLIM-Estimate’s high level of configurability accommodates the many different design processes used by developers today—including agile development, business intelligence, package implementation, hardware, call center development, infrastructure, model-based development, engineering and architecture design, service-oriented architecture, SAP, Oracle, and more.

Features

• Estimate the duration, cost, reliability, and risk of your software project
• Provide macro-level and detailed estimates in less time and save days in the planning process
• Estimate at the portfolio level using SLIM-MasterPlan
• Tailor your estimate to any design process
• Provide a scope estimate early, before any task planning occurs
• Evaluate and sanity-check project plan alternatives with industry data or your own history before any task-level planning occurs
• Validate estimates with the QSM Database, one of the largest industry databases of its kind
• Negotiate a reasonable schedule and budget, using SLIM's powerful reporting capability
• Customize estimates with a push of a button
• Eliminate updating and double entry with smart components
• Interface with MS Office and the Web