Agile methodologies require time-and-materials pricing model. The client’s ability to be involved in the development process, prioritize backlog and adjust to the end-users’ needs with evolving requirements are, in most cases, the key to the market success of a service or a product.
Sometimes outsourced development projects fail. Study post mortems documenting such failures or talk to people who were involved in failed projects, and you will discover that failure was often rooted in mediocre team organisation and meager management practices.
Let’s assume you are outsourcing your software development and wondering if things could go any faster. Development teams quite obviously vary in their inherent ability to deliver fast. On the whole, you determine the potential when you select a specific vendor / team to deliver the service.
“Impact mapping is a variant of the InUse effect mapping method, introduced by Mijo Balic and Ingrid Domingues (Ottersten), combined with impact maps for training organisations invented by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, the feature injection ideas of Chris Matts and the measurability and iterative delivery ideas by Tom Gilb”.
