IME provides reliable, reasonable estimations of effort, time, resources and costs as well as potential risks, defects and documentation page count at any point in time along the entire application lifecycle. This allows a comprehensive support in the area of multi-project management – from the proposal-phase to maintenance right up to end of life.

With our methodical support our customers obtain solutions for:

Managing requirements and change requests
The systematical categorization of requirements allows for complete transperancy for all demands including the influence on effort, time, resources and costs. It contains furthermore the continous integration of change requests within the estimation process. In combination with the creation of baselines this ensures project-related estimations at any point in time even with rising complexity and constant changes.

Planing, optimizing, performing and finalizing projects reliably
IME supports the logical structure of IT projects and guarantees the projection of any programm, portfolio or project structures. Derived from the process, a universal project structure plan (PSP) will be generated including all activites, dependencies, detailed project plans, time and resource schedules. A financial resources plan enables the optimization of cash flows through cost transperancy in every phase within every role or single activity. Details about the size of the documentation round out our methodology.

Effective resource management
Our customers receive detailed presentations of the personnel requirements with related peaks and capacity indicator based on the plans. Thereby, the minimum, maximum and optimal resource input as well as an ideal staffing and multi-projectmanagement environment can be derived.

Improving quality and risk management
Potential risks and errors are shown transparently to enable solution-oriented risk minimization and error avoidance strategies. With knowledge of all relevant factors, it is possible to identify requirements and characteristics at an early stage to develop or integrate value adding applications.

Communication management
The support of qualified communication and information management is ensured by the provision of consistent and transparent data as well as the generation of clearly arranged reports, graphics and tailored presentations. Reproducable results and absolute transparency guarantee an objective basis for discussions and decisions.

Traceability and Controlling
Complete transparency through exact allocation of costs to all phases, roles and single activities enable the accurate presentation of initial costs, operating costs and maintenance costs. An overall monitoring and flexibility of all activities and metrics for traceability is the basis for an successful and high quality implementation of all required functions.

Security and Optimization in planning

The simulation possibility of different project scenarios and what-if-analyses provides a solid ground and a minimization of risks. The impact of plans and decisions can be recognized and optimally controlled before investment. Benchmarking of estimated projects (process, team, vendor, applications etc.) allows comparison of different varieties while purposeful analyses, e.g. solution of conflicts of objectives/conflicting goals, are shown. Based on these results, the identification of measures to increase productivity and efficiency of projects will be enabled. Furthermore, development of maintenance costs offers a basis for future-oriented product decisions.
 

Sustainable realization in »time&budget«

Our expertise ensures the initial and further estimation with reliable results. The result is the significant shortening of the estimation process while increasing estimation accuracy with high saving of time and resources. This assures prompt and customer-oriented actions in dynamically changing markets.
 

IME ensures the significant shortening of estimation process while increasing of estimation accuracy.