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4x

2x
Operating Cost
1.5x

1.25x
1x

Confidence factor in estimation

Reduction in risk

Annually Quarterly 1-2% project effort 5-10% project effort 10-15% effort 70-80% project effort 5-10% project effort
Time
Transition
New Phases (Baseline current state of (Construct VMOST(s) – Plan for (Rapidly ensure idea is viable (Rapidly form a team, agree (Alpha – Prove the (Beta – Deliver features to live frequently to maximise ROI) (Close down and handover) As long as viable
Inception
Vision
Insight
Elaboration
Discovery
Construction
Feature delivery + Business
the delivery plan, cost, tech
team, tech and
business, tech and
at a low cost)
Evolution
opportunities)
plan will work!)
used, release approach)
and IT change)
(Gamma - Keep delivering value at a time when risk is lowest and estimation is at its greatest
accuracy)
Example of current phased approach Annual Budget Request for work Analysis and Design Build (Dev/Test) Support Handover

New – “Beta” delivery introduces the ability to New – “Gamma” delivery (Evolution) replaces

“Alpha” iteratively release features throughout delivery. warranty and allows work to continue if value
deliverable allows Maximises customer feedback, revenue and delivered exceeds both the cost of delivery and the
risks to be known minimises building the wrong thing, i.e allows value of the next prioritised item on the backlog
at the earliest delivery to pivot away from features with no (Chase successes!)
point of delivery. value.
(Fail fast!)

Checkpoints budgets raised for 12 “We think this is a Funding, e.g. “We Stop here if Alpha Cost versus value validate features
Delivery Team
Continuously
Seed funding, e.g.
identified and
delivered
fails! 75%+ of
now know more.
delivered to
validated after
£500k project,
budget still
months, e.g. “£2
million to fund 2 over 6 months, We think this is a available to spend every iteration to ensure value
£650k project,
teams as we think returning £2m p.a; over 7-8 months, elsewhere. NB In ensure financials delivered is higher
this will provide a £x so we want to returning £1.7m a waterfall are sound, if not than anything
million return. drawdown £50k p.a. We’d like to process this risk “pivot”, i.e. stop else, stop when
to come back with proceed/stop” wouldn’t be and do something not true.
a plan in 2-3 realised until the more valuable.
weeks to prove end of delivery,
this.” i.e. 90% of budget
already gone.