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| ====== How Does the Agile Approach Allow Us to Deliver Early? ====== | ====== How Does the Agile Approach Allow Us to Deliver Early? ====== | ||
| - | Or "How do we deliver to a fixed price contract?" | + | > Or "How do we deliver to a fixed price contract?" |
| - | + | > Or "Why do we do delivery in priority order?" | |
| - | Or "Why do we do delivery in priority order?" | + | >Or "What do we mean when we say ' |
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| - | Or "What do we mean when we say ' | + | |
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| When you move to an agile approach, a lot of people worry about how we deliver to scope. We are very used to planning all our work upfront and then working to meet that plan. An agile approach seems very strange (and concerning) because we change the plan based on feedback. | When you move to an agile approach, a lot of people worry about how we deliver to scope. We are very used to planning all our work upfront and then working to meet that plan. An agile approach seems very strange (and concerning) because we change the plan based on feedback. | ||
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| This priority order is important. If we are able to do this, then as we deliver work, it will become less and less valuable but per a particular time period of work, and each unit of work will cost the same. [[https:// | This priority order is important. If we are able to do this, then as we deliver work, it will become less and less valuable but per a particular time period of work, and each unit of work will cost the same. [[https:// | ||
| - | If this is true, then there is probably going to be a point where you have delivered the majority of the value the customer wants and the amount of additional you are delivering is so small that you should probably deliver | + | If this is true, then there is probably going to be a point where you have delivered the majority of the value the customer wants and the amount of additional you are delivering is so small that you should probably deliver |
| Now in reality, the first part of any work we do is not delivering value, but rather often more about risk reduction or learning or analysis and so on. It's important, but is not directly related the delivery of value. | Now in reality, the first part of any work we do is not delivering value, but rather often more about risk reduction or learning or analysis and so on. It's important, but is not directly related the delivery of value. | ||
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| Pictorially this is represented as follows: | Pictorially this is represented as follows: | ||
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| You may not think that this happens, but I've had experience where customers say "This is great! Can you give us this right now!" And we can then have an intelligent conversation about whether we should continue working in this vein, or perhaps change directions to work on high value work. | You may not think that this happens, but I've had experience where customers say "This is great! Can you give us this right now!" And we can then have an intelligent conversation about whether we should continue working in this vein, or perhaps change directions to work on high value work. | ||
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