Productivity

Measure of software developer or development organization effectiveness, including traditional measures and QSM Productivity Index (PI), a key component of the Putnam Software Model that includes project environmental factors.

Long Term Trends from 40 Years of Completed Software Project Data

by Katie Costantini (August 2019)

Leveraging data from QSM's Industry Database of 13,000+ completed software projects, Katie Costantini takes a high-level look at software schedules, effort/cost, productivity, size, and reliability metrics from 1980 to 2019.

Long Term Trends from 40 Years of Completed Software Project Data

Measure of software developer or development organization effectiveness, including traditional measures and QSM Productivity Index (PI), a key component of the Putnam Software Model that includes project environmental factors.

Software Project Database Analysis

An Analysis of Function Point Trends

By Donald Beckett (July 29, 2013)

An in-depth analysis of completed projects in the QSM software project database using function points to track trends in productivity, schedule, and staffing since 2000

Software Product Development Product Process Improvement

The Economics of Software Product Development

By Mike Ross (April 1, 1997)

Saving costs, and improving quality of software products, starts with process improvement.

Software Project Team Size

Team Size Can Be the Key to a Successful Project

By Doug Putnam (April 1, 1997)

We determined what team sizes were the most optimal, by comparing the productivity index of various team size ranges from completed projects in the QSM Database.

Software Project Size Estimation

Estimating Millennium Resources

By Jim Greene (November 1, 1996)

QSM will help your organization navigate the transfer of systems to the 2000 date system with proven cost and schedule project estimation methods.