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A fixed-price project with
Scrum
Case Study
Jan Gregor

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Jan.Gregor@mimacom.com Joscha.Jenni@mimacom.com
Head of Project Management,
mimacom ag
CEO mimacom Slovensko & mimacom
Österreich

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A fixed-price project with Scrum
• We will talk about...
└ The starting position
Extranet reporting application for a fixed price
└ The basics
Money for nothing - change for free (Sutherland)
└ The implementation
2 processes, 1 planning, 2 controls
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Our Motto
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Comment
• Systematical
Feedback
• Continous feedback
loops on every
level
└ in team
└ in project
└ to
managemenmt
└ to customer
Like
} Consequent
value driven
} Continous
evaluation of
every action
focused on the
desired value
Share
} One truth
} Shared toolchain
without barriers

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A Fix-priced project with Scrum
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• Online reports
• Web application
• Data warehouse
architecture
• 10‘000 users
• 2 TB data
• 2 years project
duration
• 10 PYs
• Individual development for fixed
price
Supplier
Classic
Project
Fixed price
Scrum
Customer
Features Changes
Bugs
Product Project
Middle
Business Value

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Time & Material project
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Euro
Effort (h)
Profit
Interest
Interest
Contractor
Customer

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Fix-priced project
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Effort(h)
Interest
Interest
Costs
Euro
Contractor
Customer

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Money for nothing
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Interest
Interest Interest
Effort (h)
Euro
Profit
Contractor
Customer

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Usage of individual features
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The Standish Group
XP 2002

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Freedom in Scope
Value
(per Feature)
Order
Jeff Sutherland, Money for Nothing
Degree of freedom
(Savings potential)
Feature
Good enough
Minimum

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Change for free
Jeff Sutherland, Money for Nothing
Feature
New feature replaces the old
Value
(per Feature)
Order
û

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Planing
(scope,time)
Financing
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2
3
4
5
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7
8
9
10EUR
Totalvalue
Time
EUR
2 processes, 1 planing, 2 controls

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Our cooperation
Basics
• The planning tool – rolling, visible for all
• Cost controll – daily status and forecast
• Value driven – expected succes navigates the project
Must
• Changes without change process – therefore cost-free (but not
free of charge)
• Value driven financing
• One planing for all - features, changes and bugs
Nice to have
• Freedom to invest either in bugs / new features

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• Savings : 30% from all specified
features skipped
• 42% of total features changed
• Value driven approach
improved project steering in
management board
• Objective discussion by
separation of planning and
financing
• Cross-subsidization of
features may be dangerous
• Changes are not for free :
effort for specification,
clarification and planning
considered
Jan.Gregor@mimacom.com Joscha.Jenni@mimacom.com

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Customer-oriented
User-friendly
Proficient
Qualitative
Efficient
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