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Using Control Bounds to Assess Ongoing Projects
When he created control charts in the 1920’s, Walter Shewhart was concerned with two types of mistakes:Assuming common causes were special causesAssuming special causes were common causesSince it is...
View ArticleSLIM Suite 8.0g2 Is Now Available for Download
As our clients expand into new design disciplines, QSM recognizes their need for estimation, tracking, and benchmarking tools for domains outside of just software. Our goal with SLIM 8.0 has been to...
View ArticleSLIM-Control support for Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management V3 is...
MCLEAN, Virginia – QSM, Inc., a leader in software and systems development estimation, planning, and project management, today announced that they have upgraded their integration of SLIM-Control to...
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What If? The Power of the Question
After being away from QSM and the software world for three years, I was blown away by SLIM v8.0's dynamic product integration. I knew it was coming, yet I was still impressed by the simplicity and...
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How do the uncertainty ranges in SLIM-Estimate relate to Control Bounds in...
I am often asked this question during SLIM Training classes. I remember wondering about that myself. It is a logical question since SLIM-Estimate workbooks are often imported into SLIM-Control to...
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Creating an Effective Project Closure Checklist
After one particularly difficult midterm in college, my professor said, "This is just a wakeup call; there's still time to improve before the final." I think that wakeup call was particularly painful,...
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Agile Series Part 3: Embrace Change
“The only thing that is constant is change” ~HeraclitusThis proverb is often told to individuals (like me) who love to see a project follow a plan from start to finish. I’ll be honest, I’m a planner....
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How does uncertainty expressed in SLIM-Estimate relate to Control Bounds in...
Several months ago, I presented SLIM-Estimate’s use of uncertainty ranges for size and productivity to quantify project risk. Estimating these two parameters using low, most likely, and high values...
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How Does Uncertainty Expressed in SLIM-Estimate Relate to Control Bounds in...
In the previous articles in this series I presented SLIM-Estimate’s use of uncertainty ranges for size and productivity to quantify project risk, and how to build an estimate that includes contingency...
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Customizing SLIM Suite Workbooks
Although each workbook is set up with default themes, the look and feel of SLIM-Estimate, SLIM-Control, SLIM-Metrics, and SLIM-MasterPlan workbooks are readily customizable. Screen BackgroundThe...
View ArticleHow to Use Big Data to Improve Your Software Projects
In the recent Washington Post article How the Obama Campaign Won the Race for Voter Data, Joel Kowsky writes about how the 2012 Obama campaign used analytics to improve their campaign strategy, and to...
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Resource Demand Management - Are the Right People Working on the Right Thing?
I am excited about the resource demand management capabilities in our newest SLIM-Estimate release (8.2). Software project estimates can now provide a breakout of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staffing...
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