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Individual accessChange Impact Analyzer
A small change can create a much bigger project impact. Know the real one before you commit.
Turn a requested project change into a structured view of effort, timeline, scope, cost and margin in minutes, with the assumptions behind every figure on screen.
The analysis and the report are produced in your browser. Access belongs to your KnownShift account, so it follows you between devices.
Illustrative result
- +126 hrs
- Incremental effort
- +7 days
- Schedule impact
- 13.7%
- Scope growth
- 31.2% to 26.4%
- Margin if absorbed
Example figures, shown to illustrate the output. Your analysis is calculated from your own project.
Individual access, bought once. Analyse as many changes as you need, with the report on every one.
Changes rarely affect only development effort
Late-stage rework, regression, dependencies, coordination, schedule movement and commercial leakage can turn a small request into a material project decision. The analyzer counts all of it, so the conversation is about a number rather than an instinct.
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Describe the baseline
Current project effort, where delivery has reached, and the capacity available.
- 2
Size the requested change
The core effort to build it, how much re-testing it needs, and how far its dependencies reach.
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See the real impact
Effort, schedule, scope, cost and margin, with the assumptions that produced them.
What you get
A management-grade assessment, not a calculator result
Everything a change conversation needs, in the order it is asked for.
- Total incremental effort
- Including the rework, regression, dependency and coordination the change creates.
- Schedule movement
- Working days against your real capacity, and an adjusted target date.
- Scope growth
- The change measured against the project baseline, as a percentage.
- Impact classification
- A consistent band, with the reasons it landed there.
- Commercial impact
- Delivery cost, and gross margin before and after absorbing the change.
- Scenario comparison
- Absorbing the change set against raising a change request.
- Suggested review level
- The governance route the analysis points to, and why.
- Change Impact Report
- A concise document to attach to a change request or take into a review.
Methodology
A structured impact model, not a guess
The analyzer applies a consistent, inspectable model so two changes on the same project are assessed the same way. The percentages are KnownShift's assumptions rather than industry standards, they are shown beside every result, and you can set them to whatever your own delivery actually does.
Structured methodology, not generative AI. The same inputs always produce the same answer, and you can reproduce any result you have saved.
View methodology for the full framework, the assumptions and what the model does not claim.
- Change effort
- The implementation estimate you supply, and nothing more.
- Lifecycle rework
- What the change reopens in work already completed at the current stage.
- Regression
- Re-proving what already works, scaled to how far the change reaches.
- Dependencies
- Integration, cross-team and external-system work the change triggers.
- Coordination
- The re-planning, re-briefing and agreement a change actually costs.
- Contingency
- Held against what a change of this shape usually reveals late.
- Delivery capacity
- What the effort becomes once your real weekly capacity is applied.
- Commercial economics
- Delivery cost, gross margin and the change value that would protect it.
Questions
What people ask before buying this
Short, practical answers about what the analyzer needs from you and what it gives back.
Before you buy
Using the analyzer
One change is a decision. A whole engagement is a commercial model.
The Analyzer prices the impact of a single change against a project you have already sold. The Commercial Pricing & Margin Optimizer builds the commercial model the project is priced from in the first place, with rate cards, resource loading, sensitivity and scenario comparison.
Evaluating this for a team? Discuss team or enterprise use with the KnownShift team.