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Fixed Price or Controlled Agile?
Is the agile methodology to software development compatible with a fixed price requirement? Especially in the context of outsourced IT services, sometimes it has to be. Or very close. Our favoured approach is ‘controlled agile’. It’s a model that respects your budget and the need for just enough flexibility to react to new changing conditions and priorities. In our experience, a controlled approach to an pure agile methodology works better than pure fixed price agile.
Outsourced Team + agile approach + delivery management = ‘Controlled Agile’
How does it work?
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Initial Budget Estimation
Our K&C Solution and Estimation Knowledge Base gives an informed and solid foundation for total budget planning and ROI calculation.
Agile sprints
Our K&C Solution and Estimation Knowledge Base gives an informed and solid foundation for total budget planning and ROI calculation.
Verification
Our K&C Solution and Estimation Knowledge Base gives an informed and solid foundation for total budget planning and ROI calculation.
Word of mouth
As our outsourced local systems integrator, K&C supported us in the complex integration of products involving multiple contractors. K&C professionalism and technical expertise ensured we overcame the challenge. K&C has demonstrated high flexibility in daily project management and contracting process that enabled agile adoption of new requirements and made it possible for us to meet some strict deadlines that emerged due to recently changed legislation. Also, the project had a fixed price basis for peace-of-mind budget planning.
Irene Hippner Product Manager, Sparkassen Informatik 
We spent a long time looking for a reliable development team who could bring our bold ideas to life. When Informa and KNect365 first started to work with K&C, there was a lot to do. However, after a couple of months, the results were excellent. The K&C team has met our expectations with their professional integrity, technical competence, drive, and readiness to realise challenging tasks. There is no hesitation from us in continuing our cooperation.
Gareth WebberChief Technology Officer, KNect365 (an Informa company) 
K&C has been a reliable partner for several of our projects. We consider ourselves fortunate to work with established and highly skilled professionals that have a clear understanding of our specific business needs and requirements. I am happy to report that we managed to meet our internal deadlines, and at reasonable rates.
Holger BöttcherHead of Product, Bosch Group Mobility Media 
We wanted to leverage distributed ledger technologies and deliver blockchain benefits to users of our free online platform for protection of ideas and intellectual property rights. For this purpose we have chosen K&C as our dedicated partner, as they offered over 20 years of expertise and experience of working with leading companies, demonstrating agile cooperation and timely fulfillment of their commitments. We started with initial workshop and within only 3 weeks K&C team delivered a minimum viable product for Ethereum blockchain project and set up Smart Contracts with Solidity. We’re very happy with the advanced tech stack offered by K&C and already look forward to further cooperation for our envisaged ICO.
Prof Dr Hazbo SkokoFounder & CEO, Save ideas 
K&C was a great deal of help for us with custom Java Mapping Engine that enabled fast implementation of migration components. Their automated testing approach ensured high quality throughout. The deliveries have been on schedule, the acceptance was done by Sparkassen pilot group.
Gerhard StecheleProject Manager 
K&C supported us flawlessly through the software migration process – from business analysis and installation of the software to the migration itself. The ambitious migration undertaking with many complications arising along the way was a complete success thanks to K&C expertise, high service culture, and the ability to deliver on time.
Hans-Hermann DaubData Protection and Information Security Executive 
To create deeply integrated and powerful AI solutions which transform our customers’ business, we do require reliable and fault tolerant infrastructure. With K&C professionals we have successfully achieved this challenging goal for one of our high-load services that receives over 12 mln. requests weekly. We rely on K&C to leverage the benefits of Docker, Rancher, AWS Route53 and S3, ELK, Ceph, Traefik and other advanced tools and design cost-effective solutions for our tasks.
Andreas HartmannProduct & Operations, VAIX 
Due to its extensive expertise and valuable experience developing corporate mission-critical portals, K&C has been our reliable partner throughout every stage - from planning to delivery of web solution. This goal-oriented and consolidated cooperation made it possible to develop a high-load web application and integrate it into the Metro AG portal, allowing to submit Yes Telecom offers to more than 1.5 million of prospects within just one month.
Frank KiesewetterManaging Director, YesTelecom 
We turned to K&C and have found professional support, as well as a dedicated business partner. They have both expertise in building powerful social web platforms and competence in supporting our complex web development projects - from processes automation to customer co-creation.
Michael MörikeBoard of Directors 
As the index calculation service provider to SIX Group, Deutsche Börse AG and STOXX, Indexium demanded sophisticated testing processes. K&C has built an entire test team from the ground up and provided a comprehensive range of testing to ensure the high quality and stability of the application.
Cyrille AlbrechtHead System Engineering 
Our rapid growth and integration into the organizational structure of BNP Paribas Personal Finance S.A required a new solution for automating core business processes. Deep technical background and rich experience allowed K&C to provide us with a full range of practical support at each stage of project implementation - from quality management to testing, and to ongoing maintenance. I am happy to mention that the K&C team has a good understanding of our specific needs for lean processes and was able to complete the project within the agreed budget and timeline.
Stéphane AgnelIT Manager 
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