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The QSM Function Points Languages Table contains updated function point language gearing factors for 37 distinct programming languages/technologies. The data supporting release 5.0 …

Think adding people to a software project is a good idea for schedule compression? QSM's research shows the increased cost and defects might not be worth it.

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May 1, 2025 · Larry Putnam, senior the founder of Qsm, was so passionate about it, he wrote a book, Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successfil Software Management.

Since 1978, QSM has used performance data and trends from our database of 13,000+ completed software projects to support benchmarks of completed projects and estimates of …

What does the average IT project in the QSM database look like, and how has “what’s typical” changed over time? To find out, we looked at the average schedule, effort, team size, new and …

The following reference tables are updated versions of the QSM Benchmark Tables, which provide summary performance data (schedule, effort, staff, and Implementation Units/PM) for …