SEER Avoids Budgeting Surprises For Major European Organization

I am at Estimating United at Manchester United SEER users conference in the UK.

Much information flowing around.  One item that struck me today is the comment about a MAJOR company and their success before they started using SEER.

They said before SEER 90% of their projects were on budget. The only problem is they had to increase their budget by 40 million euros to achieve that.

Now they actually understand what their projects should cost up-front and can budget appropriately the first time.

They do include management (risk) reserves:  but these things are done proactively rather than out of panic later.

Avoiding surprises is a great service SEER users provide to their stake holders.

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