The effort and scope of IT projects increases continuously – tendency rising. The consequence is that the development status is neither transparent anymore because of technologies and complexities nor easy to evaluate. The result are deadline and costs overruns, inefficient resource management, defective software and divergences to the customer's request.

 

From analysis  to development and implementation to maintenance/operating system and end-of-life

The Integrated Methodology driven Estimation is an intelligent solution for the reliable estimation of all relevant factors of any IT applications. In knowledge of the entire project scope is an early and exact identification of the requirements und their characteristic possible for efficient development and/or integration of IT software projects. In doing so our support is comprehensive along the entire lifecycle (process) - from analysis and prototype, to development and implementation, to maintenance/operating system and end-of-life. Thereby, all kinds of application are covered e.g. system-, standard- and individual software as well as new development, modification of components/modules and third-party-components.

 

Differentiation of  development, verification, system integration and deployment

The support of all scientifically published process models and de-facto industry standards up to the accurate mapping of customer specific process models enables the support of any IT processes including project type like configuration, customizing and tailoring. Of course, the differentiation of e.g. development, verification, system integration and deployment is also possible.

 

Benchmarking of applications, technologies and teams

Furthermore, the support of all published (~ 800) technologies e.g. programming languages, IDEs, frameworks and macros offers the comparison/benchmarking of their efficiency and effectivity for the assessment of productivity. The detailed consideration replies clearly the question, what programming language is the most efficient in which IT software project. An optimal staffing of resources is essential for the shortening of development time including sustainable improvement of productivity. Our expertise creates the basis for demand-oriented staffing considering staffing level for team based on soft skills. Furthermore, our solution enables performance measurement.

 

Cost Xpert offers its customers solutions to following questions:

• How can the productivity in development be increased?
• What is the most efficient possibility of realization?
• What are the impacts of requirements change to effort, time, resources and costs?
• What should be developed new and what can be reused?
• What are the integration costs?
• What are the effort and costs for maintenance/operations?
• What is the optimal team staffing (staffing-profile)?
• How can the performance of team members or pool be measured?
• What is the best solution – standard or individual software?
• How can estimate a new version/new release?

 

Sustainable applications with all functions.