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Q/P Management Group is the leading provider of measurement driven software process improvement. Our consulting, benchmarking and training services along with our innovative product offerings lead our customers to significant improvements in their ability to estimate, measure, benchmark and manage their software development and maintenance efforts.

If building it better (highest quality), faster (on schedule) and cheaper (within budget) is your concern then Q/P can help you by applying meaningful software development, management and productivity metrics to solve your problems and capitalize on your opportunities.

Q/P is the leading practitioner of software measurement and Function Point Analysis (services and training) to address the critical issues of Process, Productivity and Quality Improvement; Effective Software Project Estimating; Benchmarking (we have accumulated the world's largest benchmark database of software project metrics); Outsourcing Management and Software Product Pricing. The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) has certified our training and consultants.

Q/P's Process Excellence COE provides a range of both Software Engineering Institute (SEI) CMMI-based and proprietary process improvement assessments, training, and most importantly - support for implementation of recommendations.

This site provides a wealth of information on our services and products as well as an extensive library of articles, white papers and presentations on the benefits and application of effective measurement methods and techniques. Feel free to email or call us for more information or to find out how our expertise can improve your efforts.

Q/P news to note:

On September 17th at the International Software Measurement & Analysis Conference, Q/P delivered two important announcements:

Q/ P Management Group and CHARISMATEK Software Metrics have formed a strategic tool alliance. This alliance - linking Q/P’s software measurement, estimating, and benchmarking tools with the function point sizing capabilities and data repositories of the Function Point WORKBENCH - introduces a fully integrated measurement and reporting solution second to none in the industry.
Click here for the full text of the press release.

Q/ P Management Group debuted its new Software Measurement and Reporting (SMR) tool. SMR’s customizable, user-friendly interface allows a user to quickly enter key project data, generate project performance reports, compare the performance to benchmarks, analyze the results of the comparisons, and publish reports in either Word™ or PowerPoint™. The benchmarking functionality is an automation of Q/P’s proprietary software project benchmarking methodology. Click here for more information about Q/P’s new line of products and tools.