We've started a new client-initiated project and my main client contact and myself have a waterfall methodology background. The client expects a typical SOW and I have partially written one. I had a couple internal kickoffs to agree on the business requirements and have received my rough estimates on effort so I could cost it appropriately. Some quick backfill: our company has recently split departments up into a product team and implementation team and this project affects both teams and is the first such project for the company that requires 2 separate streams and various integration points. My problem is that since the development team is agile I don't know how to translate milestones and timelines into a SOW since there really isn't a fixed timeline, only sprints. I'm not sure what step to take next. Saving Changes...
Wayne MackRetired| RetiredSouth Riding, Va, United States
Think of sprints as milestones. The overall project becomes a series of fixed length steps and you merely need to allocate tasks to each step - note some tasks may need further decomposition. Sit down with the development team, review the SOW tasks and ask them to allocate the tasks to an initial sprint plan. See "Agile Project Management with Scrum" by Ken Schwaber for examples of this type of plan using Excel. Saving Changes...
