Agile Story Point Template*

Template for estimating Agile projects.  Sizing technique can be customized to use epics and stories measured in story points or to count stories. Gearing factors and story point weighting should be adjusted to reflect your experience and counting methods. 

Story Pts

Stories and Epics

QSM Business Agile

Business Intelligence EDW

Decision Support System (DSS) to gather, analyze, and report competitive data.

IU

Enterprise Data Warehouse Component Sizing

QSM Business Web

DoD 498

Command and control SW estimation template with detailed CSCI sizing for projects developed using DOD MIL-STD-498.

IU

Sizing by CSCI

QSM C&C

IT Infrastructure *

Hardware installation for large data center with HW Infrastructure trends, historical data, and detailed HW Installation Items sizing technique.

IU

Hardware Installation Items

Infrastructure

HW – Integrated Circuit *

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware estimation template.

IU

HW Drawings

Integrated Circuit

Package Implementation *

Template for estimating Package Implementation/ configuration projects involving business processes, RICEF objects, and workflows

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Business Process and RICEF Sizing

QSM Package Implementation

QSM Default *

General purpose template for software development for projects of indeterminate application type.

IU

Requirements Based Sizing

QSM All Systems

Rational RUP

SW-IT Rational Unified Process Detailed Use Case sizing with custom Phases, MS.

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Use Case Sizing

QSM Business

Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture Template calibrated to QSM Business trend with custom SOA component sizing

IU

SOA Sizing

QSM Business

WEB

Template for Web projects developed using Agile methodology. Detailed stories by iteration sizing template. Includes six iteration MS, detailed story sizing by iteration and complexity bin, Business Web trends, historical phase and defect tuning.

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Stories by Iteration

QSM Business WEB