MV-SOW: Defining the "width" and "depth" of our engagements.

At Millennia-Vision, we have adopted MV-SOW as the way to define the scope of work (SoW) of our  consultancy/professional services engagements as a 2-dimensional matrix, with the "horizontal dimension" at the top describing the "width" of the engagement, and the 'vertical dimension' downwards defining the 'depth' of the engagement.

 

Far from being academic talk, our approach is very helpful in putting a practical way to determine the different aspects of our engagements including: -

• Size of the project
• Level of effort
• Required resources and their skill mix
• Level of engagement of each resource,
• cost/price calculations  
• Overall project/engagement plan for us and for the client

To do so, we - at Millennia-Vision Consulting- have developed/endorsed two techniques to help us in this 2-dimensional matrix

• MV-E2E:  Adopting  the "end-to-end" approach to define the 'width' of the engagement in a way that covers all important and relative aspects of the engagement, ensuring nothing important is totally forgotten or mistakenly ignored.  What goes in this dimension is "not fixed" and depends on the nature of the engagement, its mandates, deliverables and on the customer specifics case-by-case and situation-by-situation.

• MV-TOP5 :  where we work with our client to identify top-5 (maximum) most significant items under each selected aspect in the horizontal dimension. The philosophy behind "top-5" is that of focus and delivery of results.  Focusing our attention on top-5 (max) items will also help us devote our time, energy, money and effort on things that matter most.

Once again, the purpose of this post is to give a brief about the topic and not to cover it in full detail. However, I would be pleased to respond to comments/questions on the above and elaborate on the topic as seen necessary