Estimate What? A Business-Driven Method for Early Scoping and Estimation of Architecture Impact

Open Group Conference, San Francisco. This presentation introduces a method to provide a business with specific “yes and no” questions they can understand and answer to drive a model that identifies the enterprise technology impact of a solution to drive an estimate. In practice, this has been very well received and resulted in a better understand of scope for IT and better visibility to business regarding the impact of their requests. In addition to introducing the theory and practice of the approach, it also reviews some of these real world case studies. While the technique applies to a wide variety of industries, the case studies reviewed will be for banking and a health care.