Budgetary chaos threatened to derail the development and delivery of a critical order management system. The vendor's tactics were clear: inflate and control. We were tasked with delivering an MVP in three months, within a strict budget, and amidst this vendor-created crisis. We did more than deliver; we restored fiscal sanity and reclaimed project ownership.
Develop and deliver a crucial MVP in three months and within budget.
Engaged Client Senior Management into resource planning and team composition reconsideration.
Organized and facilitated regular Steering committees with Client’s and vendor’s senior leadership
Created separate SOW for MVP and obtained vendor’s approval before signing with client.
Created Project management plan and separate single project schedule and MVP roadmap (first 2 Product Increments (PIs)) for 8 teams.
Reorganized and improved Knowledge Base
Implemented single E2E testing plan across all teams (for MVP)
Dev team partially transitioned from vendor to IT Service provider's developers early in the project which allowed make more developers billable from the very beginning.
Settled budgeting issues between Client, Service Provider and 3p vendor.
Decreased contractual expenses on 43%
Increased revenue on 24%