Press (excerpt)
An Award or criticism of the press is especially precious to us because it helps us to recognize and use further improvement potential. Every section of our tool will be analyzed and commented carefully depending on the focus of the article, e.g. estimate of costs, project management or resource planning. It is very pleasant of course when we then receive an award as a result of the analysis.
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Press commentaries in Germany:
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Deloitte and Touche
"The Cost Xpert Group has ... demonstrated the ability to help corporations develop information technology on time and on budget. Their success in this market has propelled them to one of the fastest growing companies in the technology market."
Information Week
"A well-thought out product. Cost Xpert comes with a lot of useful information about project estimating. Creating a project profile is a simple process, and installation was a breeze."
San Diego Union Tribune
"The Cost Xpert Group was able to predict the failure of the state's $100 million so-called 'Deadbeat Dad Tracking System' two years before it went belly-up." "The Cost Xpert Group's cost estimation and analysis tool, 'Cost Xpert,' gets the credit. It can accurately estimate the time and resources required to complete any software development project. Say goodbye to guesswork."
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"With Cost Xpert there is a product that supports the estimate of costs and effort of software development projects on the basis of COCOMO II with well-thought approaches. The large number of parameters requires experience which can only be gained by the comparison of your own projects with the estimated value of the software. Already by the structured representation Cost Xpert provides in practice that the effort and cost relevant parameters can be identified. In addition, the estimate is systematized very strongly which tends to provide clearly better results than „Ad-hoc-estimates“ ever could."
"Inaccurate estimation of the cost of a project and the required personnel expenditure often plays a part in the fact that a project cannot be completed in the planned timeframe.
The inaccuracy of estimation lies in the fact that the project managers have to consider a large number of factors which relevance and scope they evaluate by instinct. Cost Xpert is a tool that supports the project manager interactive in his planning – a tool based on a method which was developed for the estimation of effort and works partly with given input and with diverse categories." |