Manpower Planning for Acme Corporation – A Case Study

Acme Corp. recently bagged a 70 million dollar contract

Client: Money Financial Services Inc.- Headquartered in New York

Acme Corp. Headquarter: Northern California, United States

Global delivery (development) centers in India at Mumbai, Noida and Hyderabad

Under the contract: A pilot to be conducted Pilot to be completed in 3 months 200 people estimated requirement for full project and

20 people for pilot project

Overview

VPN (Virtual Private Network) access from any two

development centers

Up to 20% of the workforce of Acme Corporation on

the Money Financial Services project is allowed

onsite

A background check of all the workforce from Acme

Corporation on the project is mandatory

Highlights to signed contracts

Score of importance for the duration of entire project

Area of Expertise Importance Score (on a Scale of 1-5)

Functional/Domain Knowledge of Investment Banking 5

Policies, Procedures and Laws related to Financial Services 5

Understanding of Mainframe based applications 3

J2EE 5Oracle Database DBA 5

Oracle Database Developers 3Quality Assurance/Testing 5 as a role/3 as internal resource

Integration Technologies like JMS, TIBCO, etc. 4

Security Standards 5Understanding of processes related to Change Management 3

Project Management 5

Resources in areas relevant to service the new project for Money Financial

ServicesRole Skills Number of

People in the Organization

Number of People Available

Location-wise Total Employees

Current Availability, Location-wise

Project Manager

Project Management with experience in Financial Services Vertical, Customer Focus, Strong Written & Verbal Communication

10 1 US – 4Mumbai – 4Noida – 2Hyderabad – 0

US – 0Mumbai – 1Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

Technical Architect

Architectural & Design Patterns, Implementation of Security Standards, Hands-on expertise on J2EE, Oracle Database, Excellent Understanding of performance, volume and load testing, Customer Focus, Strong Written & Verbal Communication

40 2 US – 10Mumbai –1 0Noida – 10Hyderabad – 10

US – 1Mumbai – 0Noida – 0Hyderabad – 1

Resources in areas relevant to service the new project for Money Financial

ServicesRole Skills Number of People in

the OrganizationNumber of People Available

Location-wise Total Employees

Current Availability, Location-wise

Sr. Analyst Investment Banking, Policies, Procedures and Laws related to Financial Services, Strong Written & Verbal Communication

20 0 US – 20Mumbai –0Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

US – 0Mumbai – 0Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

Analyst Investment Banking, Policies, Procedures and Laws related to Financial Services, Strong Written & Verbal Communication

10 2 US – 0Mumbai –10Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

US – 0Mumbai – 2Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

Tech Lead J2EE Technologies with a good understanding of Oracle Database

100 6 US – 18Mumbai –4 0Noida – 2Hyderabad – 40

US – 1Mumbai – 4Noida – 0Hyderabad – 1

Database Oracle DBA & Oracle Developers 50 2 US – 4Mumbai – 20Noida – 6Hyderabad – 20

US – 0Mumbai – 0Noida – 2Hyderabad –0

Developers J2EE Technologies 500 20 US – 50Mumbai – 200Noida – 50Hyderabad – 200

US – 5Mumbai – 10Noida – 0Hyderabad – 5

Mainframe Specialists

Mainframe Applications 20 0 US – 1Mumbai – 10Noida – 0Hyderabad – 9

US – 0Mumbai – 0Noida – 0Hyderabad – 0

Quality Assurance/Testing

Quality Assurance/Testing Methodologies, Test Automation Techniques, Performance, Volume & Load Testing, Strong Written & Verbal Communication

300 2 US – 50Mumbai –200Noida – 50Hyderabad – 200

US – 0Mumbai – 0Noida – 2Hyderabad – 0

Pilot Run Manpower PlanningEmployees required onsite 4

Employees in India 16

For US

Designation AvailableImportance

Score Task

Technical Architect 1 5 Security Standards

Tech Lead 1 5 Oracle Database DBA

Developers 5 5 J2EE

Allotment

Designation AllotedTechnical Architect 1

Tech Lead 1

Developers 2

Pilot Run Manpower PlanningConsidering Hyderabad and Mumbai offices to set up VPN

For India

Designation AvailableImportance

Score TaskTechnical Architect 1 5 Security Standards

Tech Lead 4 5 Oracle Database DBADevelopers 15 5 J2EE

Project manager 1 5 Project management/ FunctionalSr. Analyst 0 5 Policies/ Procedures for investment banking

Analyst 2 5 Policies/ Procedures for investment bankingDatabase 0 3 Oracle Database Developers

Quality Assurance/ Testing 0 3 Quality Testing

Mainframe Specialist 0 3Understanding of mainframe based

applications

Designation AllottedTechnical Architect 1

Tech Lead 4Developers 6

Project manager 1Sr. Analyst 0

Analyst 2Database 0

Quality Assurance/ Testing 2 People from Noida to be shifted to Mumbai or Hyderabad

Mainframe Specialist 0

Offshore RatesArchitect, Tech/QA Leads, Sr. Developers, Sr. Analyst 400 /day

Developers, Testers, Analyst 240 /day

CostResource in US/onsite 80 /hr

Resource in India Level 1 220 /dayResource in India Level 2 100 /day

Architect/senior lead positions 300 /hrDevelopers/testers 150 /hr

Onsite rate (US or Client-site) 100 /hr

Total cost in US/day 2560Total revenue in US/day 3200

Total Profit/day 640

Total cost in India/day 2560Total revenue in India/day 5120

Total Profit/day 2560

Total cost / day 5120 % Profit 62.5Net Total Profit/day 3200

Net Total revenue/day 8320

Total Profit for Pilot Run (3 months) 211200

Pilot Run Manpower Planning

Full project Manpower Planning

Designation Allotted

Technical Architect 10

Tech Lead 20

Developers 80

Project manager 10

Sr. Analyst 0

Analyst 20

Database 0

Quality Assurance/ Testing 20 People from Noida to be shifted to Mumbai or Hyderabad

Mainframe Specialist 0

People to be shifted from Noida to

Mumbai or Hyderabad in pilot run

Trying to use more of level 1 officials in

order to get more profit

Main Frame officials may be needed to

be outsourced

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