To calculate the impact of an LCM solution on your organization, the composition of your development team and the complexity of your software environment is vital.
The more complex, the larger the team; the more diverse the team, the higher the potentials savings following on the investment of an LCM solution.
Please fill in the input boxes to calculate the impact of an LCM solution on your organization.
This ROI model automatically assumes 1 CEO, 1 CFO and 1 CIO.
You can adjust the hours each stakeholders spends on development related tasks (such as versioning, Build process,...) by clicking the "Adjust hours" button.
To calculate the impact of an LCM solution, it is key to have an understanding of what an internal stakeholder does during the week.
In an average organization a developer spends 1,5 hours per day (7,5 per week) on the saving of his documents, communicating, checking his version, going back to an old code version.
Most developers are also spending time on the build of an application, need time to update certain issues and will be responsible for or support the deploys and release of an application.
Our experience also tells us that he spends 2 to 5 hours on specifying requirements and communicating with business analysts.
How many hours per week does an average developer in your organization spend on:
If your organization has a person who is responsible for the build processes, our experience from previous clients tells us that he spends at least 30 hours per week on the building process itself.
Build managers spend time on checking if they are using the correct code and on reporting of the project status. Most of the time, he or she is also involved in the approval and reporting process.
How many hours per week does an average build manager in your organization spend on:
A typical deploy manager is of course responsible for the deployment procedure of the application, but due to the nature of his job he is also closely involved with reporting and spends time on the compliancy of the projects.
He spends up to 30 hours a week on the different deploys, must give his approval on several projects and needs to report on the status of a project.
How many hours per week does a typical deploy manager spend on:
Testers are responsible for the quality of the developed software. They are responsible 'to test' the application during the build and deploys phases. We believe that a tester spends approx.
20 hours per week on the testing process itself, but of course checking changed issues and reporting will take a portion of his time as well.
How many hours per week does a typical tester spend on:
Project managers are responsible for the entire project and are in contact with almost every stage of the development process.
They spend time checking the requirements, finding the latest versions of the codes, checking which issues require an update, and controlling the different deploys and final release.
Of course, the project manager has to give several approvals and is involved in the reporting of the projects.
How many hours per week does an average project manager in your organization spend on:
This ROI model automatically assumes 1 CEO, 1 CFO and 1 CIO.
How many hours per week does your CIO, CFO & CEO spend on:
Summary hours and salary
Based on the numbers you entered, we can deduct the following figures.
Number of hours per week people spend on:
Total cost price per activity per week per role (EUR)
We have calculated the time and salary spend without LCM in the tables above. Now we set the savings percentage that will be reached in all aspects of the development life cycle after the implementation of LCM.
The ROI is based on our sample figures, but also on your own estimation of potential savings.
Salary cost per activity on a weekly basis after the implementation of our LCM Solution (EUR).
Total yearly salary savings due to the implementation of our LCM Solution (EUR).
In what amount does a faster time-to-market contribute to your business value.
Next: Conclusion The implementation of LCM has a strong positive impact on your business.
- The development cost will decrease dramatically
- Products of higher quality and a faster time-to-market
- An automated and controlled development process
We have set a default of 1 server plus 5 agents, using the subscription plan of 5 years. For different configurations please contact us for a personal calculation.
Sanity check: According to Forrester an LCM investment repays itself after 3 to 6 months. (More quotes of industry experts on LCM can be found in our case study document)
Investment cost vs Total savings (EUR)
In the first year the saving are estimated on 329658 by an investment of only 116756 resulting in 237% return on investment.
Total costs before and after implementing LCM (EUR)
The total cost of all development related activities in your organization will decrease with 46% from 736678 to 401239.
LCM ensures that your working hours and finances are well spend.
Savings per activity (%)
Most savings will be achieved by eliminating redundant manual and repetitive tasks, such as manual versioning, manual issue updating or when building and deploying is not automated and thus labour intensive.
Developers can focus on development, build and deploy managers can be sure that the production is perfectly promoted to the next level.
Management is sure that any delivery is done according to the upfront decided manner, so that chances of expensive re-calls are almost non-existent.
Return on investment (EUR) in months
Implementing the solution has a quick return on investment of only 5 months.
Intangible benefits
Even more important are the intangible benefits: chances of financial consequences due to human errors are reduced to a minimum. Rules once defined are enforced and all activities are identifiable.