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Transacting Development

Workshop 170 minutes

How much does it cost to exchange the information needed to build a successful system?

Aidan Ward

Susannah Finzi

Everyone has experienced poor relationships and poor communication across the Business/IT interface. This workshop explores how to capture and manage the cost of It is possible to predict at the start of a project the types of change that may happen in the life of a project and the types of re-negotiation that may ensue. The predicted cost of these transactions often invalidates the business case.

Participants will build a cost estimation model to adapt to their own organisation.

Aidan Ward (aidan_ward@antelopes.com)

Antelope Projects Ltd

Aidan has been a risk management consultant with Antelope since 1995. Prior to that he was a software engineering management consultant with Coherent Technology, after an early career as a research consultant in seismic geophysics.

Aidan developed Antelope's Scimitar Risk Management System to allow clients to achieve business objectives in the presence of risk. Unlike most risk management approaches, Scimitar deals with the responsiveness of the organisation and its management system rather than trying to quantify the detailed risks.

Aidan has led risk programmes to board level with organisations including Tesco, BT MNS, Lloyds of London, Norwich Union Healthcare and Willis Corroon.

Susannah Finzi (susannah_finzi@antelopes.com)

Antelope Projects Ltd

Susannah's core skills are in building teams, consultancy and mentoring, connections in a wide range of environments. Editor of a number of highly successful books in the field of software Gilb, Dorothy Graham, Ed Kit, Martin Pol (published by Addison Wesley, structure and protocols and written training documentation, video scripts, newsletters, executive summaries and feature articles for the Susannah is currently a principal of Antelope Projects, specialising in Management together with the Atlantic Systems Guild.

Topics

Benefits

  • You will learn how to focus on the partnership and common goals between customer and supplier.

  • You can then separate the development cost from the cost of reaching the partnership goals.

  • You will practice predicting the cost of successful delivery and managing information transaction costs when they are excessive.

    Session: Workshop 170 minutes Level: advanced
    Audience: Participants need to have experience of negotiating across Max 20

    Material

  • Slides and speakers notes for presentations - in advance
  • Resource pack with models, forms - on the day
  • Write-up of models developed - by conference close

    Delivery

  • Spreadsheet models and notes to reflect the output of the workshop

    Format

  • Bare minimum lectures on concepts
  • Exploration of case study material - Q&A
  • Small groups for model development
  • Plenary to test what has been developed

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