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You cannot replace experience with numbers, or talent with time. It’s true for car mechanics, cooks. and opera singers.
It’s also true for engineering.
Two junior engineers do not equal a senior engineer.
In fact two dozen junior engineers do not equal a senior engineer. It like saying that three 4th grade math students can do 12th grade calculus. It doesn’t add up.
Contract Engineers also suffer from another major disadvantage: they do everything from scratch. Each new project is a fresh slate for them and they charge by the hour to reinvent almost every wheel possible.
Even if they just wrote an almost identical component, the previous employer owns the product of their work. For many common components over half of the work you are paying for is redundant.
Quality is also an issue. Most of the telecom work done in the mid 90’s was done by imported labor (remember when IT labor was scare).
Yet the result was poorly documented, suffered in quality and not well integrated.
Take an example:
A 12 week project with 4 engineers billed at $25 per hour. The best case scenario is an on-time delivery. More typical would be a slip of 3-6 weeks. Depending on the Quality Engineering involved Defect engineering can add 20-40% to the cost.
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Contracted Engineering Project
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Expense
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Low
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High
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Typical
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Engineering
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$48,000
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$72,000
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$60,000
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Support
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$ 9,600
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$28,800
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$19,200
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Total
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$57,600
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$100,000
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$79,200
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Schedule
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14.4
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25
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19.8
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Using Wolf Rock generation and reusable technology typically result in a 25%-40% savings in time and resources. A major side benefit is that the code is highly reliable and results in very few defects.
The testing methodology built into the project allows us to reduce or eliminate the additional time needed to repair component defects. Even taking quality time into account we met release schedules over 95% of the time.
Our engineering staff is very senior and very experienced. We often find that our staffing levels are less than half of what companies typically assign to comparable projects.
in once case we used a team less than 15% of the size of the original engineering staff.
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Wolf Rock Engineering Project
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Expense
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Low
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High
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Typical
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Engineering
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$57,600
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$72,000
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$60,000
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Support
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N/C
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N/C
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N/C
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Total
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$48,520
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$107,500
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78,000
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Schedule
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9
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15
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12
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This is for comparison only and assumes a projects, where the scope of the original work and the estimated time frames are comparable. The chart below illustrates the Wolf Rock advantage.
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Comparison Wolf Rock vs. Contracting
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Estimate
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Cost
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Delivery
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Low Estimate
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19% Lower
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60% Lower
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High Estimate
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7.5% Higher
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67% Lower
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Typical
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1.5% Lower
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65% Lower
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