Software Development & Enhancement Improve IT performance through estimation, benchmarking, project planning & management and IT infrastructure planning. Free example of a Project Benchmark Report

Software Maintenance & Support Improve management performance of software portfolio maintenance and support. Free copy of the ISBSG analysis of the M&S data suite Release 2

Software Package Acquisition & & Implementation Increase understanding of the activities and effort involved in acquiring and implementing a business system software package. Submit data and receive free ISBSG products

"For many years the lack of readily available benchmark data blinded software developers and managers to the real economics of software.  Now that ISBSG is making data on thousands of projects available to the software industry, it is becoming possible to make solid business decisions about software development practices and their results in terms of productivity and quality,  ISBSG data is a valuable asset for the software industry and for all companies that produce software."
Capers Jones

Useful Information

How accurate is your project estimate of effort and duration?
Use the ISBSG Reality Check tool to ensure that your estimates are realistic when compared to industry performance...

Are you planning a software metrics program but are unsure of collect?
The free ISBSG Data Collection Questionnaires will help...

Main industry tools use ISBSG data
The main industry tools now use the ISBSG data for sizing, project management...

Deliver higher quality products by using CMMI
Improve project performance and deliver higher quality products using CMMI in conjunction with the ISBSG repository and tools...

News

Release 3 of Maintenance & Support data available
October 2008
Release 3 of Industry data for Maintenance & Support applications is now available...

Research Paper Released
June 2008
Luigi Buglione and Alain Abran have released their paper: 'Performance calculation and estimation with QEST/LIME using ISBSG Release 10 data'...

QSM SLIM - ISBSG data file available
May 2008
Users of SLIM now have an alternative project history file to use with the tool...