• Data on over 5,000 Development & Enhancement software projects
  • Download a copy of the data demographics and field descriptions to understand what is contained in the data.
• Early Estimate Checker Tool
  • An easy-to-use tool that quickly generates estimates of the work effort and elapsed time (duration) required to carry out and complete a software development project, plus project delivery rate and speed of delivery.

This powerful suite can be used by:

• Project Managers and anyone involved in software estimation.
  • The estimation tool provides estimates based on regression analysis of the ISBSG data, while the data itself can be used for comparison and analogy based estimation.
• Users of commercial estimation tools.
  • Some commercial estimation tools, like “Predictor” provide for the use of the ISBSG data contained on the CD.
• I.T. Planners for development analysis.
  • The ISBSG data can be used to analyse and compare the performance of languages, tools, methods and techniques. This allows decisions to be made about the most appropriate hardware/software platforms for a project or development environment.
• Software Metrics Consultants.
  • The ISBSG data allows consultants to provide their customers with benchmarking services, estimation information and guidance on the factors that impact development productivity.
• Standards Assessment, Process Improvement and Quality Assurance, (CMM, ISO), Consultants.
  • The ISBSG data provides consultants with a base for their client assessments plus valuable benchmarking data.
• Outsourcing Managers.
  • The data provides a benchmark that can be used as a base for outsourcing contracts and performance agreements.
• Submitter of projects.
  • Organisations that have submitted projects to the ISBSG Repository can benchmark their projects against like projects and can analyse their “repository” within the ISBSG data.
• Researchers.
  • Academics can make use of the ISBSG data in their research work.

The ISBSG Early Estimate Checker tool provides fast, interactive project estimates based on the user's choice of variables: project size, platform and language type. These variables can be changed 'on the fly" to reveal the impact of changing language type, for example. The tool also provides a confidence percentage based on the size and quality of the project data sample that it has used in the calculation plus a comprehensive set of graphs.