QESP is the Australian member of the ISBSG, the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group, an international, not-for-profit organisation that has established and now grows, maintains and exploits three independent repositories of IT history data to help improve the management of IT globally: 

1. Software Development and Enhancement Repository – over 4,800 projects;
2. Software Maintenance and Support Repository – over 350 applications;
3. Software Package Acquisition and Implementation Repository – fledgling repository with over 150 projects to date.

QESP takes great pride in the fact that the ISBSG, which now includes member organisations from twelve countries and is viewed internationally as the foremost independent source of software benchmarking data and information, began as an initiative of QESP's forerunner, ASMA, the Australian Software Metrics Association.

The ISBSG Mission:

“To improve the management of IT resources by both business and government, through the provision and exploitation of public repositories of software engineering knowledge that are standardised, verified, recent and representative of current technologies”.

The data in these repositories can be used for estimation, benchmarking, project management, infrastructure planning, bid planning, outsource management, standards compliance and budget support. 

ISBSG Submissions: 

QESP members are encouraged to submit their project or application details to the ISBSG to be included in one of the three international repositories.  The ISBSG offers free Data Collection Questionnaires (DCQs) to enable the collection of relevant metrics, and these DCQs can also be used to help establish an in-house metrics program.  In appreciation to organisations' that submit data to the repositories, benefits are offered such as a Free Benchmark Report which compares the submitted projects to similar ones in the repository.  Visit www.isbsg.org/submitdata to find out more.