Vaas
Velocity as a Service
Transformation and DevOps Support In a Fixed Price Support Model.
Velocity as a Service
Any IT effort is governed by the same three primary influences:timeframe, task complexity, cost.
With software development, this challenge is exacerbated by the significant variations in the skill levels of one developer to another.
The result is that costs of DevOps are unpredictable and frequently disconnected from outcomes.
Typically, the staffing approach for large organizations leaves a significant gap.
Many development efforts amount to large quantities of unrelated transformation tasks-making the estimation of the overall costs and outcome timeframes difficult to assess, and even more staff.
Any IT effort is governed by the same three primary influences:timeframe, task complexity, cost.
With software development, this challenge is exacerbated by the significant variations in the skill levels of one developer to another.
The result is that costs of DevOps are unpredictable and frequently disconnected from outcomes.
Typically, the staffing approach for large organizations leaves a significant gap.
Many development efforts amount to large quantities of unrelated transformation tasks-making the estimation of the overall costs and outcome timeframes difficult to assess, and even more staff.
timeframe
Cost
Task
complexity
complexity
Open req; sometimes long hiring process
(Permanent cost of salary & benefits)
1-2 Year Negotiation; Fixed Scope
(Large SIs)
6 Month Process
(RFP)
2-3 Months Onboarding
(Staffing Agencies)
THE gap
technical staff
managed services
large projects
staff aug
rapid transformation tasks
VSO has taken an Agile approach to these Transformation services by assigning Story Point (SP) value to measure the complexity and skill of individual tasks.
| Story point | Effort range (Est. Hrs Per) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 8 | 24 |
| 3 | 16 | 42 |
| 5 | 24 | 56 |
| 8 | 40 | 80 |
VSO has taken an Agile approach to these Transformation services by assigning Story Point (SP) value to measure the complexity and skill of individual tasks.
| SP | $/Sp | Service Point Quantity | Velocity | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $675 | 15 | 15 | 1 |
| 2 | $2.738 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | $5.800 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | $8.520 | - | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | $12.750 | 1 | 8 | $12.750 |
| Team Velocity / Price | 30 | $34.150 | ||
VSO provides a team that can produce the required Agile velocity at a fixed price per month.