TruePlanning® for IT
Accurate Estimating for IT Projects
Whether you are a CIO, an IT project manager, an application developer, or an IT asset manager, your organization continues to struggle with delivering successful IT initiatives. The accuracy of your estimates for software and IT project costs is directly related to profitability. So as accuracy increases, so does profitability. You need a tool which speeds up your estimating time, improves accuracy to mitigate delays on your IT project ROIs, and gives you confidence knowing that your projects are optimized and your net benefits are improving. You want a solution that can easily manage application development, COTS deployment, and IT assets throughout their lifecycles. TruePlanning for IT is your answer.
How it Works?
All TruePlanning® tools include parametric models, industry-specific benchmarks, and powerful knowledge management to offer comprehensive decision support. TruePlanning encapsulates more than 35 years experience with thousands of acquisition and development projects, software expertise, and continuous independent research. We deliver a remarkable return on investment by empowering people to produce fast, accurate estimates of cost, schedule, benefits, and risk
Project elements are organized into hierarchal Product Breakdown Structures (PBS) where you can quickly view detailed cost analysis at all levels of the project. You simply enter inputs by answering a series of questions based on the size and complexity of the project.
The user-friendly interface provides wizards and templates to simplify the process and you can log assumptions and notes to provide justification for values.
A Single Enterprise Estimating
Framework for Complete Visibility
IT Infrastructure Cost Model
TruePlanning’s IT Infrastructure cost model enables planners to credibly estimate IT costs and better manage all aspects of their IT projects—from the business case and resource allocation to post-implementation lifecycle maintenance.
Total Cost of Ownership
Organizations use TruePlanning to consolidate all IT investments, set project priorities, and optimize the rate of return on implementations involving ERP systems, Web portals, and other enterprise software. TruePlanning generates estimates based on factual knowledge from similar projects, and reduces the effort to accurately forecast and track requirements at program, project, and task order levels.
Value-Based Planning
TruePlanning helps properly assess goals, costs, and benefits of projects and re-engineering business processes. Users can evaluate complex scenarios in minutes, quickly set and change assumptions, conduct “what-if” analyses, and work with at-a-glance variance analyses to identify gaps, and the financial impact to overcome them.
Dynamic Resource Analysis
Changing market conditions or business environments can dramatically affect IT project initiatives at any time during a project cycle. Dynamic budgeting and resource analysis capabilities with TruePlanning reduce the guesswork and vulnerability. If the unexpected occurs, TruePlanning quickly adjusts objectives, updates budgets, and plans future internal or contractor support requirements.
Repeatable Processes & Standardized Methodologies
Improve decision making to plan and execute projects with up-to-date cost, risk, and benefit data.
- TruePlanning institutes effective standards and criteria for a repeatable, efficient, and coordinated IT management process across your enterprise.
- The more projects estimated with TruePlanning, the greater your historical data relevance and estimating accuracy.
Software Cost Model
TruePlanning’s Software cost estimation model predicts costs, resources, and schedules for all types and sizes of software projects. Project teams deliver better software for less time and money at increasingly higher efficiency.
Customize Industry Standards to Your Organization and Projects
TruePlanning translates the results of industry standards based on analyses of successful projects to your cost estimating process. You can calibrate TruePlanning to the nuances of your organization. This will improve your estimating accuracy.
Commercial Off–The-Shelf Software (COTS)
With TruePlanning, customers use fact-based historical data to accurately estimate the use, modification, and integration of COTS products. TruePlanning also includes the activities required to identify, evaluate and select COTS solutions.
Software Sizing
TruePlanning provides a knowledge base and a variety of reliable, easy-to-use sizing tools or wizards that support use case sizing, function point sizing, and Predictive Object Point sizing (developed by PRICE for object-oriented software). In addition, TruePlanning includes complete sizing descriptors to estimate tasks and costs for code that is new, adapted, reused, or deleted.
Repeatable Methodologies for Continuing Process Improvements
Cost estimating leverages the past to predict the future. Without repeatable methodologies that yield credible results, incremental improvements in process and accuracy are impossible. TruePlanning methodologies use industry and in-house historical data enabling users to incrementally improve their estimating process with every successive project.
Systems Cost Model
Systems enables you to estimate management, oversight, and integration costs for hardware, software, and information technology systems. Often these all important costs are overlooked or underestimated.
Systems contains five cost models itself which are System, Assembly, Purchased Good, Purchased Service, and Other Cost. The System cost model estimates the cost of project management and oversight while the Assembly cost model estimates the cost of project integration, assuring speed, accuracy, and confidence in the results.
