3.6 What to fix and flex? (6)

Question 1

What can you flex?

Answer 1

Quality and Scope

Question 2

What can you fix and flex?

Answer 2

RIsk and Benefits

Question 3

What can you not flex?

Answer 3

Time and Cost.

Question 4

What’s important about being on time and hitting deadlines?

Answer 4

Deliver early benefits
Confidence
No choice sometimes
Cost overruns
Reputation

Question 5

What’s important about: Protect the level of quality?

Answer 5

Short term gain for long term pain.
Earlier phases squeezing out later - such as testing.
Emphasis on delivering less scope or using lower quality criteria.
Reduce amount delivered rather than the quality level.

Question 6

What’s important about: Embrace change?

Answer 6

OK because a more accurate product is produced.
Minor change good - flex and trade.
Major change needs formal checking.

Question 7

What’s important about: Keep teams stable?

Answer 7

New people impact informal communication and self-organisation.
Time taken to up-skill new people.

Question 8

What’s important about: Accept the customer doesn’t need everything?

Answer 8

Features of a product are the safest + easiest to compromise - contingency.
Hit deadlines + protect level of quality by delivering a reduced amount -> MVP.