In the context of applications, effective resource management has an additional success factor and replies the central question of optimal staffing, e.g. what project with which scope and which resources are needed. In practice, there are often projects with a constant number of staff. This static project teams lead to different utilization and partly to considerable productivity loss because of frequently unused or overallocated resources.

 

Increase in productivity through demand-oriented staffing

With generation of Work-Breakdown-Structure (WBS) and corresponding project plan (activities, independencies, schedule and resources), Cost Xpert allows for the optimal staffing of resources and capital expenditure, while gaining substantial savings of time and costs. The illustrating of optimal staffing including peaks and capacity utilization allows the identification of minimal, maximal and optimal staffing of resources. This creates the basis of a demand-oriented staffing for a constant utilization, also in multi-project management environment.

 

Transparency in each phases across rolls and single tasks

Deduced from the specific process model, WBS shows exactly all relevant steps of procedure including appropriate time schedule and expending costs. The realized transparency allows a detailed resource- and cost planning including monitoring about all project phases and ensures continuous monitoring about the latest project state. Cost Xpert offers an essential advantage with the possibility to detect the minimal staffing resp. optimal staffing meaning minimum number of project team members, who are necessary to realize the IT-project resp. the maximal number of project team members, which there is no acceleration despite of allocation of more resources. Additionally, the optimal project procedure is detected also on basis of existing team size.

 

Benchmarking of internal team performance

The identification of a qualified team for the respective project is a sustainable complexity. New technologies and challenges demand dynamical team compositions because of different soft skills to a successful realization. Systematic application of methods identify which skills in which characteristics increase the efficiency of teams. Through comparison of applications, technologies and platforms, benchmarking of internal team shows powerful qualifications and advanced trainings
 

Effective resource management with high savings of time and resources.