Plexsoft Ltd is an IT consultancy. It offers mainframe-related services through its director, David M Victor, who has over 30 years experience gained with clients such as IBM, Accenture and the Swiss Bank.David is also the author and owner of SPECTRE, an estimating tool for IT tasks. SPECTRE generates a number of indicators for a proposed task of which the critical one is Development Effort expressed in days.It also provides at-a-glance views of:For each project:- the developers assigned, the tasks allocated to them, the estimated effort for each task and the total for the project. For each developer:- the allocated tasks and the estimated effort for each, the project to which each task has been assigned and the total task effort required.Estimates can be saved and recalled for amendment, and salient details can be exported.Detailed information can be found at