SLIM 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 ArticleLosses Loom Larger Than Gains
Anyone who has gambled (and lost) knows the sting of losing. In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, pioneers in the field of behavioral economics, theorized that losses loom larger than gains;...
View ArticleDemand the (Right) Right Data with SLIM-DataManager
A few weeks ago, Thomas C. Redman posted Demand the (Right) Right Data on the Harvard Business Review blog, about how managers should set the bar higher, in terms of data.Why are managers so tolerant...
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Data is the New Soil
David McCandless gave a TED talk in July 2010 that focused on pairing data and design to help visualize patterns. In his talk, McCandless takes subsets of data (Facebook status updates, spending,...
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Top 25 Programming Languages Visualized
Since I began working with SLIM-Metrics and the QSM historical database, I've been interested in unique ways to present information. I've written before about how others pair data and design to...
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Improve Your Project Comparisons
Here is a helpful tip for comparing project performance for projects of different sizes.Software size has a big impact on metrics like effort, duration, defects, or productivity. We have known for many...
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Agile Series Part 2: Stakeholder Satisfaction
When learning something new, people often try to relate the new information back to something they already know in order to help make sense of the new concept or idea. As a psychology major now...
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Data Myths
In a post for The Guardian's Datablog, Jonathan Grey explores the rise of data journalism. Data journalism is "a journalistic process based on analyzing and filtering large data sets for the purpose of...
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All About Bar Charts and Histograms
Having data is great, but if you don't understand how to display it, you can't get your point across. The focus of this blog series is to explain the various chart types available to you in...
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What's the Story in Your Data?
In his book, The Functional Art, Alberto Cairo sets out to explain what data visualizations are, why it is significant to pair data and design, and how to assess whether a data visualization is "good"...
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Database Validation Best Practices
Database validation is an important step in ensuring that you have quality data in your historical database. I've talked before about the importance of collecting project data and what you can do with...
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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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