Remember that god awful pricing sheet used to calculate project costs... PBT I think. It was an excel file with loads of macros dumped in and had a tendency to cause your PC to blue screen. God help you if you opened more than one instance... like opening pandora's box
Always used to be DXC's favourite way to charge for senior staff (INF3) while paying them at junior rates
@mm+1jq51n1b9 it's all about inflating Project Manager time
M Johnstone used to push this heavy in their capacity as Proj. Delivery Lead
Part of it was for a reason though...
Because of how BAE had their IT services handled, any contracts with BAE EITS were rigged to begin with. Essentially BAE would submit a demand to EITS, EITS would then submit the demand to DXC... and then the EITS PM would slap double whatever cost estimate DXC applied (so a £30k job would be £60k to the client) and pass on to an unhappy client. And all the EITS PM was doing was watching DXC do thr work, and their actual job spec from a DXCed who went over to EITS was "make DXC responsible for everything and make them look bad"
What this meant was proposal documents with an endless list of caveats... from "DXC are not responsible for bad traffic making cabling engineer late" to "DXC are not responsible if an asteroid strikes the datacentres" and I'm only half joking there
It got so bad that DXC started going to BAE groups on the side like Digital Intelligence and offering them to contract the Project work direct, at much lower costs
I'm also asked to spend longer writing and justifying estimates than the estimated work itself. Most get rejected, the client knows changing something simple is a few hour's work at most. Not in DXC. Someone wants paperwork. It's not the client!!
DXC hasnt used spreadsheets to price in years , we have a god awful and complex application that takes more timevto fill out than most projects last !
@ad+1jq51n1b9 it was still being used when I left in 2021
supposedly getting replaced with some cr@p webapp but whether that happened or not I dont know
You legacy CSC guys have tons of Sheety applications like that.
I hope you don't think the PBT has been replaced with something more modern/reliable.....