QSM Europe is an expert in the area of software sizing, project estimation, project control and benchmarking. QSM Europe offers professional services and tools for two potential customer groups: managers of software development and enhancement projects and purchasers of tailor-made and COTS-software.

With our knowledge and experience we are capable to realize large savings in your software development and software purchase projects. Not long ago we have shown in a government organization how to reduce the cost of a project from 15 million Euros to just 3 million Euros.

The tools and knowledge that QSM Europe offers enable you to:

• Quickly and reliably establish the size of a software system to be developed or enhanced.
• Quickly and reliably estimate the effort, cost and duration of developments and enhancements
• Gain and keep control of the development process so you can steer the project in a timely fashion and you can prevent surprises in duration, quality and/or cost.
• Control the influence of changing user requests
• Deliver what has been agreed upon with the expected quality
• Develop a metrics database for software development and enhancement
• Assess offers form contractors
• Evaluate the market conformity of your organization and your contractors

We use the methods develped by QSM (Quantitative Software Management) with the SLIM (Software LIfecycle Management) toolsuite developed to support these methods and techniques.

QSM's toolsuite and consultancy services have been on the market for many years and have shown their validity and usefulness to many organizations, such as (in the Netherlands) ABN AMRO, ABP, Accenture, Alcatel, Atos Origin, Tax Revenue Service, Customs, Caesar, Capgemini, CSC, DHL, EDS, Essent, Euroclear, Getronics PinkRoccade, IBM, Informatie Beheer Groep, ING, Inlichtingenbureau, vtsPN(Police), KLM, KPN, Logica, Lucent, Ministerie LNV, MN Services, Nationale Nederlanden, NS, NCR, Ordina, PGGM, Postbank, Prorail, Rabobank, RVS, SAP, Sogeti, Telfort, TNT Post, Unisys en UWV in various environments.

As the functional size is essential for making reliable estimates of project parameters, we are experts in FPA (Function Point Analysis). Our consultancy services are applied more and more by government organizations because of our independent position. For Function Points you might also read any other repeatable metric for size such as Use Cases, Objects, Classes, Parameters, Source Lines of Code, etc.

The following points proved to be very important for our success:

• Our independence: FPA is done by neutral experts and not by the software contractor
• Our knowledge and experience: all our FPA-consultants are certified and experienced: they constantly work on FPAs and not now-and-then, as some other parties do.
• Our consultancy is offered with a fixed price per Function Point and is guaranteed

This leads to a good, transparent assessment of the size of a software design for a correct price, the only way to come to a good estimate of effort, cost duration and quality. Experience has shown that multiplying size by a constant factor (hours per Function Point) is misleading: the relationships among various project parameters and their constraints is much more complex! QSM Europe can show how to obtain reliable results quickly and easily.