Requirement management in the area of IT is an independent competence with comprehensive challenges. Rapid technology changes, rising complexity and growing customer orientation require an integrated and flexible approach to estimate IT applications especially in feasibility-phase.

 

The implementation of a customer specific standardized approach is essential for a secure handling of requirements, change requests and requirements creep. This requires:

A critical influence on reliable estimations is the conveyance of requirements (hard facts) also from text documents in predictable quantities/scopes. Hence, that is a essential task of our support. The upcoming change requests and requirements creep are analyzed and assessed on exactly the same determination as requirements and are converted in the estimation process. By use of baselining, the impact of changes on estimation can be visualized and different status of requirements can be compared. This allows the analyses and identification of distribution of change requests, based on client specific data of system requirements including consideration of dependencies.

Our integrated solution enables our customer fast and secure handling of requirements and change requests and ensures the support of initial estimation and the estimation during the project run at any point of time. Thereby, our customers achieve complete transparency about the impact of system requirements and change requests as well as requirements creep on effort, time and costs. This increase the security in the planning process and provide a solid decision base for optimal planning to an effective and efficient realization while minimizing risk as well. High flexibility ensures prompt and customer-oriented actions in dynamically changing markets.

 

Conception of estimation-relevant documents

Cost Xpert supports the conception of estimation-friendly specification and/or product requirement specifications as well as in the field of tendering. Essential is the establishment of a consistent structur, which enables the standardized and systematically transfer of requirements. This ensures the quick determination of reliable, meaningful results regardless of individuals.

Increased planning security already in proposal phase

To increase planning security already in proposal phase, there is the possibility to appraise values within a range (Beta-Distribution = Best, Expected, Worst). This allows the consideration of probably quantity of specific requirements and perhaps quantity deviations upwards and downwards. Furthermore, our methodology enables estimations with high accuracy already in feasibility-phase, based on expected product features. The consideration of “requirements evolution”, that means the percental amount of all changes between project start and project end, complete our expertise.

 

The standardized consideration and systematically assessment of new information ensure the support of initial estimation and the estimation during the project run.