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Good news for CIOs, IT Directors and CFOs.

Experienced project managers deliver successful IT projects 2 times out of 3.

The bad news is that 1 in 3 still fail to deliver - even when run by the most experienced project managers. In a wider sample*, 2 out of 3 projects were challenged in terms of cost, schedule or functionality delivered.

*Standish: Chaos Report

Get to grips with IT performance.

SMS consultants have typically 20-30 years experience helping blue-chip companies and government departments - in fact, any organisation which uses software-intensive systems - improve the performance of their IT systems.

"Silver bullet" solutions don't deliver.

Our extensive expertise allows us to apply the principles behind all the popular improvement models to deliver tailored solutions focused on business need.

Deliver value from your outsourced partnership.

SMS brings independent third-party objectivity to achieving a mature and sustainable outsourcing partnership, using facts to defuse potential points of contention. By encouraging integrated team work, we enable customers to manage the supplier relationship effectively, and enable suppliers to deliver real value.

Are you a high-performing, mature organisation?

...then you know that change is a continuous process. SMS consultants are at the leading edge of best practice in perfecting process performance - including Lean management and Agile development. We can devise solutions to issues no-one has come across before.

Software Measurement Services Ltd. is a specialist, independent IT Management consultancy working with decision makers in blue chip companies and government departments to improve the results delivered using software-intensive systems of all kinds. Whether you want to deliver faster, cheaper, better, or more predictably, SMS can partner you to achieve your objective.

SMS software consultancy services support:

  • output-based contracts
  • software measurement
  • functional size analysis
  • benchmarking
  • software process improvement
  • Lean and Agile management
  • process-based business change
  • software capability assessment
  • supplier capability assessment
  • estimating
  • risk management
  • project management
Training, mentoring, coaching and consultancy in CMMI, ISO, ITIL, Six Sigma; FPA, IFPUG, COSMIC, Mk II; GQM, Gap Analysis. Estimating models and techniques, COCOMO II.

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News and Events

Strategic Insight: Risks and Rewards of Strategic IT Sourcing.

SMS and CAI Europe invite "c" level executives to join us - at London, Leeds or Birmingham - for an informed debate on a critical issue.

Speakers at this event include Rex Parry (Eversheds LLP) Grant Rule (SMS), Dr. Paul Wright and Philip Standing (CAI Europe)

details from www.strategicinsighteurope.com

Software Measurement and Improvement Forum

22nd May, Russell Square House, London

Delivering continuous improvement

register for SMIF

COSMIC News

Increasing recognition of the value of the COSMIC functional size method is reflected in growing adoption of COSMIC world-wide...

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Training

Practical Use of Function Point Analysis

A two-day workshop giving an introduction to the fundamental principles of software measurement.

IFPUG 4.2 FPA

COSMIC v3.0

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