The Project Shrink » flex-agility http://www.projectshrink.com Welcome To Shrinkonia. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:53:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Executives, Fixed Price And Agility http://www.projectshrink.com/executives-fixed-price-and-agility-1326.html http://www.projectshrink.com/executives-fixed-price-and-agility-1326.html#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:59:59 +0000 Bas http://blog.softwareprojects.org/?p=1326 Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - Executives, Fixed Price And Agility is a post from: Project Shrink.

]]> In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to David Webb of Exigen Services. We are talking about flex-agility: their outsourced, fixed price, agile-based application development offering. Earlier this year I talked to Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services, and I got a lot of feedback on this topic. Your feedback let to this followup interview.

We are focusing on the agreement with the client. As David explains, this approach is actually an explicit decision about which party will take what risk for what price. For the customer the fixed price offers a safety net, the maximum amount that they have to pay. In the agreement they leave more than normal room for changes which are done in an agile fashion.

  • Why would customers want to go for this type of arrangement?
  • How do you explain the rules of this new game?

Questions I will be addressing in the flowing interview with David Webb.

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]]> http://www.projectshrink.com/executives-fixed-price-and-agility-1326.html/feed 1 Fixed Price, Agile And Outsourced. Utopia? http://www.projectshrink.com/fixed-price-agile-outsourced-1141.html http://www.projectshrink.com/fixed-price-agile-outsourced-1141.html#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:16:46 +0000 Bas http://blog.softwareprojects.org/?p=1141 Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - Fixed Price, Agile And Outsourced. Utopia? is a post from: Project Shrink.

]]> Ever heard of a fixed price agile method for outsourcing? Sounds like utopia, but with a closer look it makes sense. It’s about agility, a proper governance model, and, as always, communication, communication and communication.

In this episode of “The Project Shrink” I have the pleasure of talking to Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services. His company developed Flex-agility: an outsourced, fixed price, Agile-based application development offering.

We discuss

  • flex-agility,
  • how do you balance scope changes and a fixed budget, and
  • how to handle communication between customer and outsourcing partner with changes occurring and the price fixed.

You can view the video below… or follow this link to YouTube.com.

Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - Fixed Price, Agile And Outsourced. Utopia? is a post from: Project Shrink.

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