project estimation tool

Project Estimation Tool

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Introduction

• The concept for building Project Estimation Tool has the objective of expediting the overall process of estimating the software development projects.

• Estimation of software projects has been a pain point for the industry over the years. According to a report by Gartner, failure rate among software development projects is close to 30% and according to a report by McKinsey in 2012, around 66% of the software development projects go by cost overrun and around 44% of the projects go by the time overrun.

• We at Faichi are creating a tool that not only expedites the entire estimation process but also assists you in the planning phase.


Challenges

Following are some of the commonly faced issues while estimating projects.

• Estimating similar projects is redundant and time consuming. There is a need to learn from our past project estimation experiences quantitatively rather than just qualitatively.

• Manually creating the sprint plans for the project once the high level estimation is done, is a complex and time taking process.

• Taking care of the complexity levels of the tasks listed in the estimation sheet and the manual logic calculations make this process error prone.


Solution

• Our tool expedites the estimation process and also automates sprint planning.

• The knowledge, expertise, and experience gained by working on diverse projects has have been leveraged to build this tool.

• In Drupal, project can be split into Drupal elements such as content types, views, taxonomy requirements, menus, blocks, panels, services, SOLR etc.

• Extensive experience with these elements, equips us with ample proficiency in estimating projects.

• So, over a period of time, this tool enables you to learn from past estimates and improve estimations in near future.

• Essentially, we are reducing guesstimation based on past experience and execution.


Screens - Dashboard

List of projects that

have been estimated

in the past

Project templates

Entry point for

estimating a new

project


Screens – Add New Task

Adding details of the

task and number of

hours for each phase

such as Analysis &

Design, Development,

Project Management,

Deployment etc.


Screens – Estimate Breakup

List of all the tasks

along with effort

breakup for each

task


Screens – Estimate Summary

Phase wise

effort

breakup of

all the tasks


Screens – Work Items

List of all the tasks

along with total

effort estimate for

each


Screens – Project Summary

Optimistic,

Pessimistic and

Most Likely

Estimates along

with Breakdown by

Group and Role


Screens – Generate Sprint – Manage Resources

Manage resources that would

be working for this project.

Automated Sprint Plans will be

generated based on this.


Screens – Generate Sprint

Default

Automated

Sprint Plan is

generated by

system Low & High

Estimate Sprint

Plans are also

available

User can do

changes in the

Sprint Plan &

save the same

Sprint Plan can

be exported in

PDF to be sent

to the client

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Faichi Solutions, LLC

640 W. California Ave Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Phone: +1 (408) 769-4941

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