Engage a SCOPE Manager

At the project initiation, you engage a SCOPE Manager to navigate through the classical dark areas of it projects.

The northernSCOPE concept has proven to work, and includes the following activities performed by the SCOPE Manager:

• Dividing the project into defined subprojects.
• Requirements definitions support including quality requirements
• Early functional size guestimates (Function Points)
• Determine a realistic development timeframe for the project
• Request For Proposal and Contract negotiation support for unit price per Function Point
• Requirements baseline management
• Progress control against the agreed baseline
• Change management based on unit cost per function point

• Closing development, and experience data collection

Benefits of nothernSCOPE management:

• No lose/lose fixed price contracts
• Flexibility for customers to request needed change
• Supplier paid for the work done directed by the customer
• Customers pays for the functionality they need
• Fair trade for both customer and supplier

• Lessons learned collected, and proven track record for subsequent projects

Cost

The SCOPE Manager is engaged 2 days/month in average over the lifecycle of a project, very dependent on the project specifics.

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