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Augsburg, February 03, 2011 - Estimation Guidelines ensure high quality estimates
For the first time, Cost Xpert is making individual and general Estimation Guidelines available for its clients. The objective is to establish a standardized and systematic estimation procedure to ensure a person-independent and replicable determination of reliable, high-quality, results. Clients of the world's leading provider of Integrated Methodology driven Estimation (IME) are able - with the help of various guidelines - to estimate their versatile IT projects quickly, easily, safely and reliably, even without in-depth knowledge of estimation techniques.
For the first time, Cost Xpert is making individual and general Estimation Guidelines available for its clients. The objective is to establish a standardized and systematic estimation procedure to ensure a person-independent and replicable determination of reliable, high-quality, results. Clients of the world's leading provider of Integrated Methodology driven Estimation (IME) are able - with the help of various guidelines - to estimate their versatile IT projects quickly, easily, safely and reliably, even without in-depth knowledge of estimation techniques.
To ensure the proper application of scientific estimation methods and to make it as practical and simple as possible, the innovative market leader offers its clients comprehensive Estimation Guidelines. The primary objective is to establish a standardized approach for the systematic application of methods in the area of estimation. The Guidelines provide a "recipe" for how to estimate any type of IT projects, even without specific knowledge of estimation methods. As a result the client’s team is able to arrive at reliable, high quality, person-independent, transparent and replicable results.
The Estimation Guidelines are created for all the different project clusters and cover a client's entire portfolio, whether they are individual and/or custom applications or standard software solutions such as e.g. SAP, IBM, Oracle etc. The practice proven Estimation Guidelines cover all relevant areas and determine the necessary inputs for specific project situations. This ensures the correct application of methods and allows for quick, reliable, objective and transparent estimates for any IT project. Associated with continuous know-how transfer from the methodology expert, clients achieve specific and practice proven methodology competence over time.
To enable the client to arrive at high quality estimates over time, the Estimation Guidelines are “living” documents. This implies that new findings and real life examples from the customers can be integrated in the guidelines upon request. So, even as projects evolve and change, the objective and traceable determination of high quality results remains assured.
Cost Xpert is the worldwide leading provider of solutions and services for the Integrated Methodology driven Estimation (IME) of IT applications. The method, based on scientifically proven methods and models, is the key for a domain and industry independent, realistic estimate of all relevant factors over the entire lifecycle. The expertise of Cost Xpert represents a practice-oriented and intelligent solution that creates a solid and transparent basis for decisions to optimally plan and securely realize even the most complex of IT applications.
