There is a growing number of open source and commercial tools that have been created to support the COSMIC methodology.  The COSMIC organisation takes no responsibility for these tools. All are web applications or SaaS unless otherwise stated.

Record COSMIC Counts

Capture and record project counts for benchmarking and audit purposes

  • 21prim – collaborative online tool for sizing from documentation.
  • Estimancy
  • ScopeMaster – ProjectSizer online tool for sizing from documentation.
  • SoftwareExpert – app for Android. English, German, French and Spanish. Manual.

Automated Software Sizing Tools

These tools use AI to determine software size from written software requirements.

    • ScopeMaster – Analyser, automated sizing and QA of user stories. English, Italian, French, Spanish & Portuguese. Certified by the Measurement Practice Committee.
    • Estimancy
    • Story Analyser for Jira – App For Jira Cloud  

Parametric Cost Modelling

Use the COSMIC size as the input to these project modelling tools to predict project costs, resourcing and timelines.

Learning the Methodology

  • COSMIC Docs*  – Mobile app version of the COSMIC Documentation.  English and Spanish.

Others

Tools that can be adapted to use COSMIC

Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, Aha! and Wrike all support custom fields that can be used to store a CFP value

Note:

  1. These tools are developed and maintained independently of COSMIC. COSMIC organization does not have any role in ensuring correctness and nor does it assume any responsibility.  Please send any comments/suggestions to [email protected]
  2. * Uses COSMIC copyrighted materials and pays royalty to COSMIC.