Increase productivity
»One accelerator to increase productivity lies in the qualification of your employees.«
(Study: Fraunhofer Institute, setting levers to more productivity, 2009)
(Study: Fraunhofer Institute, setting levers to more productivity, 2009)
Complete more projects with the application of demand oriented
A prerequisite for increased productivity is efficient resource management. An essential goal of our expertise is to deliver IT projects on schedule and with a high degree of quality by applying demand oriented staffing. Based on client specific processes and IME, the minimum, maximum and optimal resource demands, and their respective peaks, are identified. We further identify particular skill sets that will increase the team’s efficiency and point toward potentials for further training and increased qualifications. For business critical projects, analysis confirms that a resource mix with overlapping skill sets is meaningful, while lower budget/priority projects can be staffed with a complementary skill set. Cost Xpert’s systematic application of methods assures demand oriented staffing and consistent resource utilization for single projects, all the way to enterprise size IT-Portfolios, along with qualified personnel development measures.
Shortening of turn around time
Another important field to sustain productivity increases lies in the area of process management. With the help of comprehensive analysis and benchmarking, weak spots along the entire value added chain lifecycle (application lifecycle) are identified, from planning, realization, implementation and stabilization – all the way to maintenance. This way, potentials for controlled process optimization are identified while simultaneously achieving transparency about their interdependencies and impact. Together with our customers, Cost Xpert helps developing individual process models for comprehensive process- and project optimization. Essential is the linking of all activities, their pre- and past conditions and the distribution of all the different roles and their respective responsibilities.
Benchmarking of technologies
The support and benchmarking of more than 800 technologies (programming languages, IDE’s, frameworks and macros) allows for the assessment of the productivity of these technologies and for the objective identification of the most efficient technology.
- How many resources represent the minimum, maximum and optimal team size?
- What is the most efficient composition of a team?
- What skill sets and to what degree increases the efficiency of the team?
- What is the most efficient process?
- How can processes be monitored and improved on an ongoing basis?
- How can transparency over all activities, their interdependencies and their impact be established?
IME provides practice proven solutions to support long-term productivity increases for individual projects, all the way to entire IT portfolios.
