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About us
SMS Exemplar
Quantity Surveyors of Information Systems
“WIKIPEDIA:
“A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with identifying and controlling building costs.”
Information Systems are the critical hub of modern business operations. For businesses and public sector managers who need an honest and objective assessment of what’s going on in the engine room, SMS provides the best professional know-how around.
We partner business managers and IT professionals to identify root conditions, and make the engine run better.
The SMS team work with you to understand the constraints of your business. We identify measures of value that mean something to your business. Our experience of value-mapping systems in a range of industry sectors helps you identify and prioritise the opportunities, and realise rapid benefit from improvement opportunities.
We are leading European specialists in performance metrics for today’s software-intensive business systems. Our network of subject-matter experts, specialist trainers and topic coaches provide the in-depth knowledge and experience to enable customers and users to achieve better value from IT service and development teams, both in-house and outsourced.
SMS are a recognised authority on measurement-driven software process improvement. Our knowledge of software measurement techniques is unsurpassed. We pioneered European public training in both CMM and CMMI improvement models. SMS works throughout the UK, across Europe and Scandinavia. Our extensive network of highly experienced consultants and strategic partners includes fluent French and Spanish speakers.
SMS offers services in key areas which support business performance improvement:
- Effective leadership – vision and strategy
- Systems thinking – taking a whole-life view of cost and delivery
- Source for value – outcome-focused supply and supplier management; Lean procurement practices
- Responsibility-based planning – gathering the evidence, setting the goals, monitoring and managing performance
- Improve performance – focusing on business benefit, and winning stakeholder commitment
- Communicating strategy – coaching teams and mentoring individuals to achieve effective implementation of change and process improvement
- Learning organisation – retaining, capturing and applying knowledge
- Business Agility – applying Lean principles and Agile development techniques to optimise value, innovation and flexibility
- Measurement-driven software process improvement – delivering value to the business and its customers from SPI. Includes compliance with the CMMI Product Suite where required.
- Models and frameworks – appraisals, gap analysis, coaching and mentoring for IT-related quality and capability standards, including ITIL and ISO 20000, ISO 27000 (security), CMMI, SPICE, Automotive SPICE, COBIT, TickIT etc.
Software Measurement Services
www.measuresw.com
The Quantity Surveyors of Information Systems.
SMS Ltd. is a leading European specialist in business metrics for delivering value from IT systems. We provide training, mentoring, function point analysis, estimating, requirements and risk management, performance evaluation, productivity improvement programmes, project audits, function point audits, scope management and a range of support services for retained IT departments and for clients of outsourced suppliers.
Build your sustainable future on our know-how.
The founding genius behind SMS was Grant Rule. Grant was an internationally recognised authority on measurement and goal-setting for managing IT services, software productivity, predictability and performance.SMS continues to supply world-class expertise in estimating, requirements, performance management, value realisation and cost benefit analysis for software development and application management.
Charles Symons, creator of the MkII Function Point method and co-creator of the award-winning and internationally adopted COSMIC FP size measure is a retired director of SMS and available by special arrangement for bespoke consultancy on COSMIC.
Many SMS consultants have contributed significantly to the development of industry standards at both national and international levels. They have been instrumental in establishing not only the ISO standards for functional size measurement (ISO 14143), but also have contributed to creation of the COSMIC FP sizing method (now ISO/IEC 19761:2003). Our team includes a number of IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialists (CFPS), MkII Certified Function Point Counters, and contributors to the Common Software Metrics International Consortium (COSMIC).
SMS consultants have participated in the Counting Practices Committees of the design authorities for IFPUG FPA, Mark II FPA and COSMIC and worked with the British Standards Institute (BSI) and the International Standards Organisation (ISO) Work Group 12. Currently, the national representatives on ISO WG12 for both the United Kingdom and the Republic Of Ireland operate as SMS consultants.
SMS Managing Consultant Tony Rollo contributes to the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group and was instrumental in developing the ISBSGs Standard Benchmarking Process. SMS are active members of Intellect and the NOA. We are contributors to Intellect’s Guide to Outcome-Based Agreements. Many of the SMS team present at industry conferences such as the European SEPG, UK Software Metrics Association, SMEF, ITSMA, Software Best Practices, Process Improvement Forum, NASCOMM, Chinese Process Improvement Conference, ACOSM, IEEE, Agile Edge, BCS and SPIN events.
The SMS Exemplar Group is SMS Exemplar Ltd. (Company No. 03161471) and Software Measurement Services Ltd. (Company No. 2971999), both registered in England.