Optimize the Application Maintenance Estimation (AME) Process
Augment your traditional expert estimation with parametric estimation to reduce surprises.
- Application Development Managers have to defend maintenance budgets to executives.
- Often the estimates are based on a single method – expert estimation – instead of also including parametric estimation in the process.
- The result is a variance in estimated and actual budgets caused by varying degrees of scope interpretation by experts who are called upon to estimate.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Having a single expert estimation technique is not enough. You need to include an analytical parametric technique to quickly surface assumptions and have that discussion early rather than having to defend a budget shortfall.
Impact and Result
- Produce a charter that will help you sell an optimized application maintenance estimation process internally for the benefit of the business.
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Contributors
- Magne Jørgensen
- Capers Jones
- Oktay Turetken
- Valerio Franceschin
- Derya Toka
- Saravanan Mylsamy
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