Sustainable know-how
The purposeful and individual adoption of method competence requires sophisticated training level and content. Cost Xpert engages to accomplish »real« know-how transfer. For this reason Cost Xpert offers comprehensive and qualified method training (offered on the following levels: Basic - level 1, Advanced - level 2, Expert- level 3), in addition to other qualified training.
Training IME & Tool - Basic:
- Development of specific method competence
- Overview of all relevant scientific estimation methods and models
- Mapping relevant information (functional requirements) for reliable results
- Identification and evaluation of cost driving factors
- Determination of reliable results
- Analyzing, benchmarking and simulating
- Estimation of releases and mapping of multi-project management environment
- For professional support and change management use time saving features
Method Training:
- Use and benefit of estimation methods in any IT projects
- Overview of process models and industry standards in IT projects
- Procedure models in software projects (V-Model XT, Hermes, Prince2, Metrika)
- Introduction in sizing-methods / hard facts (heuristic and parametric)
- Overview of parametric sizing-methods (functional-, model-, data-, process-driven)
- Introduction in estimation methods / soft fact
- Overview of COCOMO II (Post Architecture, Early Design, Application Composition)
- Overview of REVIC, UML Case Estimation (Karner, Schneider and Winter)
- Transfer of requirements in metrics of sizing-methods
Training Use Case Points:
- Development of specific basics of UML for estimation purposes
- Identification of suitable display forms of methodical cost estimation
- Counting and evaluation of UML Use Cases
- Differentiation and derivation of Use Cases from Business Cases
- Verifying Use Cases via Actors, referencing and functionalities
- Formulation of Use Cases on the basis of various display forms
- Evaluation and counting of Use Cases to estimate with the Cost Xpert Use Case Point method
In addition, the offered trainings include individual seminars for purposeful, company-specific know-how adoption, such as:
- Feasibility-, efficiency analyses and Earned Value analyses (EVA) of IT-projects
- Evaluation of proposals and IT projects/products
- Increase in Productivity and efficiency in process and project management
- Best-practice estimates for requirements and change requests
- Benchmarking in IT-projects (e.g. teams, applications, technologies, processes, backfire-values)
- Identification of the most efficient opportunity to realize IT projects
- Economic outsourcing-decisions (nearshore/offshore)
- Supplier evaluation (performance measurement), post calculation and contractor management
- Traceability in IT projects
- Best-practice estimates for version and release
- Conception/Optimization of estimation-friendly documents (e.g. specification, tenderings)
Current dates can be found at Events.
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