Software Engineering Architecture Mentoring Estimation/Budgeting Project Management


Despite years of experience in information technology, many companies still find it difficult to develop and refine manageable schedules and budgets. Our estimation and budgeting service uses a variety of key input criterion to arrive at functionality release, budget, schedule, and staffing scenarios. We use these input data to feed our PlanixTM estimation engine. Depending on the stability and completeness of available project information, we can successfully estimate our customers’ initiative within 5 to 10% of actual figures.

Your Realities:

  • Fixed deadlines
  • Broad application feature sets
  • Varied employee skill sets
  • Divergent technology environments
  • Disparate process and methodology expertise
  • Commitments to management, customers, employees

What we do:

  • Execute high-level requirements definition
  • Understand breadth and depth of desired feature sets
  • Analyze key driving variables
  • Assess application complexity
  • Assess team capabilities
  • Assess difficulty of implementation
  • Assess challenges of configuration
  • Estimate budget hours and dollars
  • Predict project schedules
  • Develop optimal staffing ramp-up and scale-back scenarios
  • Develop manageable implementation horizons

 

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