Is the assessment tool’s estimate accurate for any project?
No, this is an estimate that you must fully review and customize before you use it in your own project estimations. Although almost every aspect of your application is covered somewhere in this workbook and each has an associated weight indicating the effort required to upgrade that particular aspect, the weights for some aspects are left at zero. This means that the assessment tool does not consider that all aspects are important to the estimation. The aspects that do have weights for effort and cost have values that may not be appropriate for your organization. Also, remember that every upgrade project is different, and although similar worksheets to this one have been used in real upgrade projects, there are always new things to consider or assumptions built into estimate worksheets that do not apply to every project. It is likely that you will have to make some adjustments before applying this estimation to your own projects. For example, there’s a Resource Costs worksheet, which s
