allabout Estimation

We use parametric models to predict your project’s outcomes in terms of its most likely cost, effort, spend, time to completion and risk profile.

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allaboutXpert Estimation can help you analyse your Software or IT projects in a few easy steps, get graphical feedback on predicted cost, effort, duration and even quality outcomes and then model variables to improve your investment and guide your decisions quickly.

Boost your project planning process by testing it against a world-wide database of actual projects going back over two decades or against your own historical data.

Proven mathematical models enhance the art of project forecasting and rule of thumb guesswork into a process supported by science.

Repeatable and predictive modelling highlights cost drivers and areas of focus.1

Create specific probabilities for managing objectives and playing with scenarios. 2

Mathematical models that query likely variations in a project.3

Reduction in guesswork and an enforcement to structured, repeatable estimation.

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Model variations, test scenarios and query your own best choice in strategic intent.

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Properly used, estimation techniques enable accurate planning.

Investigation into actual project outcomes compared to initial plans goes back decades, creating a range of different models to explain variance between plan and delivery. These models particularly aim at areas of predictable risk and the best way to minimise them and mitigate against them.

Our tools reflect the real-life experience of thousands of projects, translating hard lessons and project actuals into accessible wisdom. By focusing on specific parameters and their variable interaction, accessed through a tool that targets planning data and standard elements in the development lifecycle, the seeming impossibility of guessing future outcomes is reduced.

Modelling technology is thus immediately accessible and the complexity of deeply theoretical specialist knowledge is transformed into a decision tool for executive, planning and delivery teams.

Working with you, we offer:

•Consulting guidance and advice based on our personal and team experience;•Deep theoretical and practical knowledge about estimation practice and parametric models;•Diagnostic and response-accurate wisdom to avoid missteps;•A listening or a leading partner, depending on your requirements;•The promise of transferred knowledge, and;•A commitment to repeatability, quality, cost and optimisation of risk mitigation plans for you

and us.

allaboutXpert Estimation combines consultant expertise with our digital tool suite and world class best practises.

We are supported through our global partnership association with Galorath Incorporated, leaders in the theory and practice of estimation, and their comprehensive suite of intuitive digital tools, SEER.

SEER for Software and SEER for IT are software and IT estimation and assessment tools, used to parametrically estimate effort, duration, cost and gauge project risk.

SEER can help:

•Quickly analyse the overall costs of your project – no matter how big and complicated;•Analyse and test trade-offs between parameters;•Identify key cost drivers within your projects, and;•Establish a risk profile for project parameters and their impact on the project as a whole.

The business benefit means:

•A consistent, repeatable and accurate estimation process;•Identification of cost reduction;•Accurate Total Cost of Ownership estimates;•Defendable and substantiated “Should Cost” estimates for vendor management, and;•Accurate resource estimation.

SEER products can import and export project plans directly to Microsoft® Project (and other project management software). Project staff can choose from a variety of industry standard methodologies to create a project plan automatically, using the estimator’s capability. In addition, there is a direct, menu-driven interface between leading-edge Function Point counting tools and SEER products.

Quality outputs need quality planning.

To say our core competency is project management is an understatement. It’s more like an explosion of genius.

Innovation is our game and we really are the experts we claim to be in everything project: people, process and technology.

We teach, train, consult, build, fix and even find the right people for you.

So if you want change in your business, we’re your best bet for innovative genius.

allabout Estimation

www.allaboutxpert.com Johannesburg: +27 11 549 8600 Cape Town: +27 21 510 8655

www.allaboutxpert.com.au Brisbane: +61 (0)7 3339 5616

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Our tools and techniques provide:

•Parametric modelling tools using both tool and industry project database of historical project information;

•Streamlined and automated project estimation and project cost management;•Modelling and refining a project’s feasibility;•Mathematical models tested in an applicable database of actual project history;•Refined project measures through best practice modelling outputs;•“Most likely” estimates of risks, costs, duration and quality of production;•Specialist estimation services in software development;•An intuitive interface for defining, describing, sizing and classifying software and IT projects;•Additive project estimation and multiple estimation types and points in a projects lifecycle;•Ability to add and define individual work elements;•Retain and reuse previous models and project profiles;•Pop-up windows and annotations to guide users;•Easy, step-through definition of project scope, complexity, and technologies;•Incorporation of the SEER Knowledge Bases as your virtual “in-house expert”;•Creation of default project definitions, values, ranges, and calibrations;•Custom sizing mechanisms to estimate your project based on the way you work and deliver;•Early lifecycle estimations even before a project is well understood, to assist with budget and

portfolio effort and cost planning;•Outputs through charts, graphs, and reports for quick summaries;•Immediate views of project outcomes and alternatives;•Open architecture and APIs, and;•Easy integration with enterprise applications.