Overview

An effort tracking system is the first step towards quantitative management of the organization. ETS provides a well-defined and detailed project planning, scheduling, tasks allocation, effort tracking and monitoring system and collection and analysis of effort, size and schedule data. This data can used for measuring performance of the projects and organization. It also gives valuable insights on the strategies and actions needed to improve performance of projects and organization. Different kinds of metrics could be derived from this system like Cost of Quality, productivity, schedule adherence, planning efficiency, person-months costs, cost of effort in monetary terms, profitability of the project and organization etc.

Functionality

• Resource Allocation
• Project Planning
• Scheduling
• Task & activity allocation
• Monitoring and follow-up on assigned tasks and activities

• Gather effort, schedule and size data at a detailed level for analysis and improvement vis-à-vis

  • Cost
  • Quality
  • Schedule adherence
  • Profitability (Gross Margin and operating margin)
  • Resource utilization and deployment
  • Project planning, scheduling and tracking
  • Effort and schedule estimation
  • Activity based costing

Features

• Collect data at the most granular level possible
• Simple to use
• Easy to understand
• Simple to implement
• Componentization of data for further analysis-aggregation, slicing and dicing
• Minimum overhead in terms of entry time
• Minimum training required for using the system
• Address organizational objectives stated above
• Easy reporting, data collection and aggregation