In Scrum, the act of Product Backlog refinement is defined as follows: And as such, 10-20% of their cost should be shifted to OpEx. For any new team with no clue, this is mostly 10-20% of their planning. Sometimes it is put on the Sprint Backlog for transparency.
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This is kept ‘free’ in the Sprint when crafting the Sprint plan. Most teams have a good sense of how much time of the Sprint is normally spent on maintenance work. How do most teams deal with this? By applying a simple rule of thumb to start with, and using the Inspect & Adapt loop of Scrum to adjust when needed. In Sprint Planning we also have to take into account the time spent on refinement and maintenance activities for the upcoming Sprint. Luckily, there are some great practices that teams can apply to account for these kinds of costs in a lightweight manner. Since we can simply account for all Product Owner activities as OpEx, the biggest challenge lies in getting a clear insight in the OpEx part of the Development Team work. Simple approach to tracking OpEx in a Scrum Development team This includes all forms of refinement, stakeholder meetings (storymapping, business value estimation, etc) and whatever else you can think of.
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When a team has the full responsibility to build-ship-run, there’s some maintenance to be done.
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Taking this approach there are rougly two types of work in Scrum: Operational Expenses are a bit more complicated, since we want to account for both preliminary work as well as maintenance. Simply tracking all expenses like Development Team pay & costs needed for specific Sprint Goals should suffice. So all cost incurred by the Development Team in creating the Done Increment should be under CapEx.
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Ĭapital Expenses should account for all in-sprint development activities. For a deeper dive and detailed background, also see the extensive SAFe CapEx/OpEx article. So a super simplified way to track/account these is to budget all Product Owner activities as OpEx and all Development Team activities as CapEx. OpEx is all ‘preliminary’ work, and all maintenance. In short: CapEx is all development (innovation) work. I am not currently sure how this would translate to SAAS or app development.ĭifference between CapEx & OpEx highly simplified
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Talk to your financial experts and work together to improve! The sources used are targeted at software development for INTERNAL use. The proposed practices are by no means a panacea. After reading the great article by fellow PST John Gillespie titled CapEx & OpEx through a Lean lens, I felt the need to rephrase in my own terms to give a practical starting point for Scrum Teams struggling with this concept which can lead to an administrative burden if we aren’t careful.ĭisclaimer: I am by no means a financial expert and the below article is just as much me trying to make sense of stuff as potentially helpful to practitioners in the wild. This distinction seems to be at odds with having a more mixed flow of work compared to the days when we used to make a big design up front (BDUF).
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