Do you have an ambitious project but are worried about keeping within the tight budget? Read on for some tips.
When creating solutions, our aim is to involve our customers, to ultimately build a technology platform perfectly matched to their business needs.
Our choice of technologies enables us to deliver solutions in a flexible, fast and cost-effective way. Being highly adaptable, it means they work together, creating an integrated approach to managing business information and processes.
How do we Keep Project Costs Down?
When listing your requirements for a new technology solution, it can be so easy to get carried away with “wouldn’t it be great if it could…” Equally, Technology Partners can get carried away seeing plenty of up-selling opportunities but that is how costs can escalate, quickly.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, so we focus on maximising benefits for them rather than money for us. We do this by:
- Exploring and evaluating requirements through workshops to properly define what is important to the solution.
- Building visual representations of the system so customers can easily assess and experience how the solution will work. We ultimately deliver a working prototype through iterations, empowering our customers to be involved throughout the entire design and build process.
- Delivering our solutions faster and more cost-effectively, whilst ensuring our customers benefit from our collective community.
- Using our practical knowledge developed through many years, gained from working with our customers, across multiple industries with wide-ranging applications.
- Using our extensive portfolio of work already delivered and proven, we recycle software, customisations, enhancements, integrations and integrated software applications with our customers. This means our customers invest less and get more value, with shortened delivery timescales.
- Building our solutions with flexibility in mind, keeping ongoing costs lower such as maintenance, upgrades and continuous enhancements.
- Not overconfiguring software applications, ensuring they can be more easily managed.
- Writing software enhancements and integrations in ways that ensure they can be adapted with minimal impact to the overall solution. Our integrated software applications work independently, using light integration touchpoint technology, ensuring unrivalled flexibility for the future.
- System enhancements are delivered in distinct phases. This brings clear focus when collaborating with our customers on system improvements.
How can you Keep Project Costs Down?
Not all the control of project cost increases relate to the Digital Transformation Technology Partner. There are areas within your power that will help keep your project costs down, such as:
- Identifying the challenges you are trying to overcome and the objectives you are aiming to achieve with the solution and tying all requirements back to them.
- Keeping it simple – don’t get me wrong, our development team love a challenge and can deliver highly complex solutions, but keep coming back to the first point above. If it doesn’t meet an objective, put it on the list for a future phase (if at all).
- Use the Agile Project Management Methodology, work with your Digital Transformation Technology Partner to keep the iterations into manageable and achievable. There is nothing worse than getting to the end of a “big bang” project only to find a major requirement is missing.
- Work in collaboration with your Digital Transformation Technology Partner, taking on data prep tasks (if you have the skills and time) as well as asking whether there are any financial implications of changes made along the way. Some partners will take the opportunity to charge for every little change control, whereas others – like Avrion – will allow for some flexibility within the project.
If you are looking for a Digital Transformation Technology Partner who will help you keep your project costs down, get in touch.
