Facts You Need to Know About the ISBSG Repository Data

Data is submitted to the ISBSG from many different IT and metrics organisations.  These organisations have an interest in benchmarking, themselves, or wish to support the world’s only “open” repositories of IT project data.

The ISBSG software metrics data can be used to assist you with:

• Estimation
• Benchmarking
• Project management
• Infrastructure planning
• Bid planning
• Outsourcing management
• Standards compliance
• Budget support

Review what you can find in the Development & Enhancement Repository.

We are serious about the Quality of our Data

All data that receive is rigorously checked and cross-checked for quality before being added to our Repositories. Each project is then assigned a rating code (A, B, C OR D) to denote its quality rating.  Approximately 93% of our projects are rated either A or B and it these projects that are used in analysis.

The ISBSG data is trusted and used by some of the most significant companies in the industry. Analyses of the ISBSG data have been compared with analyses of other industry data and found to be consistent.