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Job Design for a Multimedia Web Development Unit

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Business Manager | Business Developer | Sales Support
Production Manager | Administrative Assistant | Production Staff



Process:  Estimation Guidelines
Purpose: To reduce risks of underestimating Projects it is necessary to construct and maintain a set of high level estimating guidelines for all standard products of WebDev Studios based on historical data collected for similar projects and products.

These Guidelines must be continually reviewed and refined based on the latest project work efforts for the product. Continual refinement should result in continuous improvement in estimating costs of projects. These improvements will result in greater profit margins being realized and fewer "unexpected" scope alignments due to poor estimation at the proposal stage.

Closely related to Proposal Development, Production and Estimation Data processes.


Actor

Activity

Frequency

Business Manager

No stated tasks.

 

Business Development Manager

No stated tasks.

 

Sales Support

Maintain estimating guidelines for each product. Monitor historical performance by comparing recent estimation data to data used to formulate the guidelines. Prepare proposal estimates based on Guidelines. Update Estimation Guidelines for each product as new data becomes available.

Ongoing.

Production Manager

Review and validate Estimation Guidelines against current production strategy and methods.

Ongoing.

Production Staff

No stated tasks.

 

Administrative Assistant

No stated tasks.

 

 

 


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