In this presentation we show a simple mechanism of estimating the size of technical specialists for Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) and IT services companies.

1. How many technical specialists do you need?
Using PMM to estimate size of TCP for ODCs & IT service companies
Vinay Dabholkar, Ph.D.
Catalign Innovation Consulting
vinay@catalign.com
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2. You don’t want your technical career path to be…
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3. Just a wall-hanging
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4. You want your engineers to play …
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5. Some of these roles…
CTO Chief Architect Fellow
Distinguished Engineer Pr. Architect Technical Director
Sr. Staff Engineer Sr. Architect Sr. Principal Engineer
Staff Engineer Architect Principal Engineer
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6. Question is: How many do you really need?
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7. To re-phrase the question…
CTO Chief Architect Fellow
+ Pr. Architect Technical Director
Distinguished Engineer
Sr. Staff Engineer
+
Sr. Architect Sr. Principal Engineer
+ Architect Principal Engineer
Staff Engineer
Totally how many
do you need here?
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8. Let’s use a 2 step estimation process
1 2
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9. But, before that we need to wear a special goggle
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10. Our goggle is called Partnership Maturity Model
Influencing Contribution Define new
Highly Valued Standards to market Areas of
Partner leadership research
Ownership of New product Customer
Innovation Requirements/ Ideas / prototypes partnership
Centre Roadmaps consulting
Co-developing Influencing Customer
Center of requirements Roadmaps orientation
Excellence
Offshore Cost, Quality & Post Responsiveness
Development Timeliness of development to customer
Centre deliverables support
Adequate Customer
Resource Resources with Cost of
Communication
Centre Basic competencies Resources
Source: PMM paper by Jaideep et al Philips
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11. And we need two dummy organizations
Let’s call them RaCo and CoeCo
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12. Both RaCo and CoeCo have
10 projects with 100 people each
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13. Now, let’s start with step-1
1 2
See each project through the PMM goggle
How does the picture look?
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14. PMM Level RaCo CoeCo
Resource 7 projects 2 projects
Center
Offshore
Development 3 projects 4 projects
Center
Center of 0 projects 3 projects
Excellence
Innovation 0 projects 1 projects
Center
Highly Valued 0 projects 0 projects
Partner
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15. Now, let’s move to step-2
1 2
Use the rule of thumb table…
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16. PMM Level % of TCP members
Resource 0.3% – 0.7%
Center
Offshore 1% - 2%
Development
Center
Center of 3% - 4%
Excellence
Innovation 5% - 7%
Center
Highly Valued 8% - 10%
Partner
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17. Apply it to the table we got in step-1
What we get is…
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18. RaCo
PMM Level Projects People TCP% TCP strength (est.)
Resource 7 700 0.3%- 2-5
Center 0.7%
Offshore 3 300 1%-2% 3-6
Development
Center
Center of 0 0 3%-4% 0
Excellence
Innovation 0 0 5%-7% 0
Center
Highly Valued 0 0 8%-10% 0
Partner
Total 10 1000 0.5%- 5-11
1%
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19. CoeCo
PMM Level Projects People TCP% TCP strength (est.)
Resource 2 200 0.3%- 1-2
Center 0.7%
Offshore 4 400 1%-2% 4-8
Development
Center
Center of 3 300 3%-4% 9-12
Excellence
Innovation 1 100 5%-7% 5-7
Center
Highly Valued 0 0 8%-10% 0
Partner
Total 10 1000 2%-3% 19-29
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20. RaCo needs: 5-11 technical specialists
CeoCo needs: 19-29 technical specialists
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21. Now we know…
CeoCo needs 2x to 6x more
technical specialist than RaCo
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22. Look 2 years ahead through the
same PMM goggle
And repeat steps 1 and 2
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23. It will tell you TCP need in the future
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