A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF A GIVEN PROBLEM - CEOS METADATA AS A COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN IT AND BUSINESS.
CEOS MetaData aids in showing the complexity of a problem where there is not always an understanding between IT and business.
This means that even a technically inexperienced team member or sponsor will be able to describe the complexity of a demand, thereby achieving mutual insight into the situation and subsequent understanding.
For example, if a business requests to add a new column to a report and delete another, the business might see the change as taking 2 hours while IT comes up with an estimated timeframe of 3 days.
The CEOS MetaData tool makes it possible to clarify this positionally inconsistent estimate by showing the number of objects affected by the change and their dependencies.