Estimating projects has always been an arduous task for organizations around the globe. Methods of estimations vary with different project management techniques.

1. 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.

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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.

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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.

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Screens - Dashboard
List of projects that
have been estimated
in the past
Project templates
Entry point for
estimating a new
project

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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.

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Screens – Estimate Breakup
List of all the tasks
along with effort
breakup for each
task

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Screens – Estimate Summary
Phase wise
effort
breakup of
all the tasks

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Screens – Work Items
List of all the tasks
along with total
effort estimate for
each

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Screens – Project Summary
Optimistic,
Pessimistic and
Most Likely
Estimates along
with Breakdown by
Group and Role

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Screens – Generate Sprint – Manage Resources
Manage resources that would
be working for this project.
Automated Sprint Plans will be
generated based on this.

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Screens – Generate Sprint
Default
Automated
Sprint Plan is
generated by
systemLow & 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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Phone: +1 (408) 769-4941
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