Estimation Service
Our current offering is 'Free Estimation Service for Software
Projects'. Although we have arrived in cyberspace with the intention to
assist businesses and software development communities in software development
and support but that's our longer term goal, our focus at the moment is
providing for an estimation service that is truly best in class and is offered
to the entire community.
As part of 'no cost'
component of this service, we will share 'Person Days' effort estimates with
service request initiators.
Detailed Estimation
Report, however, will be charged for. This paid component of the estimation
service is not currently at offer but will be, very soon.
Following are the top reasons why you should choose
us for this service.
If you are an IT Services
company then you would be in a never ending cycle of bidding for fresh software
development or support projects or renewing existing support contracts. One of the
basic exercises before you can bid for a project is the estimation of effort
and schedule. Since the measure of estimation expertise required to crack bids
is an ever rising graph, you can only hope to match the graph either by
continuously hiring the best estimation talent or by continuously training the
existing and if you don't then you suffer peaking out of expertise levels in
your company resulting in lower future bid crack rates.
Also, constant hiring of
talent is not an all time cost effective approach due to the various reasons
such as non availability of skilled estimation resources in the local market causing
you to invest more money to get them from remote locations, limited budget, economy
downturns, etc.
Internal training can help
to an extent but there is a cap on how much you can improve the talent in house.
Training is like charging a battery with external power source. There is always
a limit on how much charge can a battery consume. There is a point after which more
training doesn't help. Don't let this talent saturation creep into your companies.
We have the solution for
this that is right on the target. Our estimation experts are the industry best
estimation talents who have joined with us over internet to provide for their
services. They may be working as Project Managers, Business Analysts or Architects
in various IT companies across the globe but their expertise is available
virtually through us to work out estimates for your software requirements. And
since the basic effort estimation service is free of charge, it is a clear win
for you. On one hand, you will cut costs by avoiding fresh hiring exercise and
on the other you could use the estimation figures submitted by us to balance
out the figures that your own experts have produced. This 3rd party
view, that we provide, will prove a boon to you as you will be able to produce
more realistic estimates in your biddings.
Our experts deploy industry
best estimation practices to work out project estimates such as Function Point
Analysis, Use Case Point Analysis, WBS, COCOMO etc.
We try to maximize the 'estimation'
talent exposure to your projects by deploying 3 experts in parallel to work out
the estimates. This clearly gives a lot of leverage to your native estimation
expertise.
We constantly research
this area to come up with ever modern and effective estimation techniques.
Please check out our 'Research'
section regularly for notes and small articles that we keep posting about the
subject.
Give us a chance to work
with you and check the difference we make. We believe that you will only gain
by giving us a chance. Later, if you like our services, you can choose us as
your Estimation Partners.
The advantage of making us
your partner is that the paid component of Estimation Service will be available
without charge to you. Do write to us at 'support@econcinnity.com' if you want
to partner with us now, or later.
There are other services
on the web who offer 'Free Quote' kind of services but there are differences
when compared with us.
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We run this
service for the entire community while others offer it only for their potential
customers.
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They usually
have limited estimation talent pool while we have people from all over the
globe constantly joining us from all directions.
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We provide
estimates for software projects of all kinds, viz, EAI, Legacy Migration,
Custom Software Development, Maintenance & Support of Custom Solutions, Product
Development, Product Support, etc. targeted for various markets such as
Banking, Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution, Utilities,
Internet, etc. Most of other online services we checked so far provide
quotations for website development only. We, therefore, have a wider scope.
We anticipate that a few people
might feel reluctant to submit their requirements to us due to various reasons,
such as
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'Non
Disclosure Agreements' (NDA) with their end customers.
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Fear of loss
of project due to project requirements leak to us.
In such cases, our
response is.
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If you have
signed an NDA with the end customer then you should not submit the requirements
to us until you have established us as your Estimation Partners and your NDA
allows you to share documents with your partners. Do write to us or leave a
message at the site with your contact information if you wish to establish us
as your Estimation Partners.
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If you fear
that the leak of project requirements information could lead to loss of project
then be rest assured, we are only supporting you in your estimation exercise
and we will never use the information for our benefit. We after all need you as
our friends who trust us and there by grow our trust network. But, just for the
peace of your mind, delete the project originating sources information from the
requirements documents before submitting to us. We only need pure requirements
to work out the estimation. Trust us.
We intend to adopt 'Virtual
Delivery Model' in future for all our service lines. Associates from all over
the world are welcome here. We want to grow this platform into a vibrant
community of skilled IT resources.
People from all walks of
IT industry will be needed here when this site grows to its full potential, right
from Relationship Managers to Business Analysts, Architects, Project Managers,
Developers, Testers, Deployment Engineers, etc.
Current list of offered
services are listed here. Please
read it to understand how you may 'Engage Us'
for doing Estimations for you. The list also shows the planned roadmap for
2009.
Although security
sensitive work areas are not offered currently, the security plan we have for
future is enumerated in our 'FAQ' entries, here.
Updated On: 10/28/2008 10:21 PM
