Salesforce Project Scoping & Estimating
Salesforce Project Scoping & Estimating
27 March 2019
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Kalki Yasas
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
• Currently lead consulting & services sales & go-to-market for Success cloud
offerings in India
• Previously led Global Shared services consulting & implementation organization
(Salesforce Services)
• 20 years of business consulting, services delivery, sales, change management,
product and delivery management and experience in CRM & Enterprise Solutions
• Vertical Expertise
Senior Director ○ Financial Services
Consulting & Services ○ Medical Devices & Life Sciences
kyasas@salesforce.com
○ Retail & CPG
○ Telecom
• Skill Highlights
○ Business development & Large deal sales
○ Practice development & leadership
○ Strategic Roadmaps & Technology success blueprints
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Agenda
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Learning Objectives
Small and Medium Sized Projects
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Business Objectives and Outcomes
Scoping “North Star”
Business Objectives and Outcomes: Cone of Uncertainty
Aligning Expectations and Reducing Uncertainty to Achieve Customer Vision
Uncertainty narrows based on
discovery, education, research AND
scope decisions
Estimate Variability
Best Practice(s):
Key Business
Objectives Salesforce Capabilities Business Impact Related Benefits
Single Customer Omni-Channel COST SAVINGS Customer
Improve Service View Knowledge Base Satisfaction
CaseCustomer
Increase ResolutionAcquisition,
Time
Efficiency & Engagement & Retention
Effectiveness Intuitive Service Customer First Contact Resolution Agent Experience
Console UI Community
Best Practice(s):
★ Map business objectives to solution capabilities to business impact
★ Utilize business value mapping for solution prioritization
★ Establish baseline and targets for KPI’s
★ Ensure reporting & dashboards in place to support optimized process
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Business Objectives and Outcomes
North Star for Success
Understand Customer objectives to plan activities, make recommendations, and track progress
for your Customer engagements
Business Priorities determine scope management and roadmap
Understanding Customer’s Business Priorities is first step towards helping them drive value.
Best Practice(s):
★ Business outcomes and KPI’s documented
★ Business outcomes and KPI’s used to prioritize business needs / requirements
★ Business outcome / KPI targets understood and considered in scope decisions
★ Critical Success Factors understood, documented and ownership assigned
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Discovery & Scoping
Salesforce to Partner Knowledge Transfer
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Scoping & Estimating Overview
No experience, but it need not be your experience
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Discovery Process
Scope Solution
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Scope
Definition and Impact
Definitions
“The assessment of a situation, usually through monitoring, consultations and discussions.”
“To make a preliminary inspection or investigation of”
“To seek by inspecting various possibilities”
Impact
The goal of scoping exercise is ultimately define the functional and technical boundaries of
a project, the project scope.
However, process is equally about understanding, assessing and consideration the value
and impact of options and possibilities.
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Scoping Session
Goals and Objectives
Understand not just what the customer wants, but why they want it
- goals and objectives
- pain points
- business needs and outcomes
Understand customer maturity / level of sophistication
- Business process(es)
- Development methodology
- IT project experience
- Organizational change management
Establish yourself as a Trusted Advisor
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Scoping Questionnaire Categories
Which Business Users will be using Salesforce? Discovery & Scoping Toolkit
- Service Cloud
What are your key Business Objectives and Key
- Sales Cloud
Drivers for change?
To locate the Discovery & Scoping Toolkit
What are the Business or Functional Requirements?
- p.force.com/learningpaths
Is integration with other systems required? - Sell the Solution page
Is there data that needs to be migrated? - Close the Deal section
- Explore the <Cloud Name> Discovery
And, how will your end users get trained? and Scoping Toolkit
Don’t see one for your Cloud, go to
Feedback on that Cloud’s Learning Path
and ask when it will be available.
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Customer Readiness Assessment
Four Dimensions
Best Practice:Customer Readiness Assessment completed based on project size and complexity to identify risks and
assumptions and agree customer obligations
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Common Pitfalls - Table Exercise
Scoping
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Common Pitfalls (1 of 2)
Scoping
Scoping based on second hand information - what they told Account Team - risky and ineffective
- Knowing the answers or recommendations does not mean the correct questions were asked
- Does not allow you to establish yourself as a Trusted Advisor
- Knowledge transfer from account team used for meeting preparation
- Tip: Salesforce Solution Engineers welcome collaboration
Be wary of customer’s who dictate the solution rather than the requirements
- Tip: Call it out as a risk and include in risk budget
It is not about answering technical questions
- If you can, this can help establish credibility
- If you can’t, answer the question with a question and commit to follow up
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Common Pitfalls (2 of 2)
Scope
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Levers and Refinement
Scope
Levers Levers
- Features - Features
- Functions - Functions
- Responsibilities - Responsibilities
- Rates - Rates
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Estimation
Project & Risk
Purpose
Drive success for consultants and customers with a clear project structure
Support partner creation / maturation of estimation methodology, tools and process
- Repeatable process to support practice growth
- Flexible and easy to use
Understand the importance of experience in project estimation, even if it is not yours
Ensure estimation boundaries and limits are transitioned to Statement of Work
Ensure scope refinement (negotiation) levers and estimate impact are clear and
documented, at each step of the engagement
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Estimate
Definition and Impact
Estimate Definitions
Approximating, predicting, and/or projecting a quantity based on experience and information
available at the time, with the recognition that other pertinent facts are unclear or unknown.
Source: www.businessdictionary.com/definition/estimate.html
The approximate calculation or judgement of the value, number, quantity, or extent o something.
Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/estimate
Impact
No matter how well informed or how clear the scope,
estimates are never perfect
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Cost Estimation
Scope Solution
1 2 3
Feature-Based Staffing Reconcile
Bottom Up Top Down
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Project Estimation Methodology Overview
Accurate estimate and project plan for customer and partner success
● Enable meaningful and efficient scope negotiations
● Define scope to be documented in SOW
● Support detailed project plan and change order management
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1. Feature Based Estimation
Bottoms Up
Level of detail vary by client, project size, and need for accuracy
Rule of Thumb No task estimated at less than 0.5 days or more than 5 days
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Example: Sales & Service Cloud Capability / Features
For Illustrative Purposes
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User Experience
For Illustrative Purposes
Inputs
- No. of Pages & Complexity
- Additional Deliverables
- Assumptions
For custom user experience
- mobile development
- custom user experience creation,
including most communities / sites
deployments
- custom force.com apps
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Additional Services
For Illustrative Purposes
Environment Management
- Who will be responsible for migrating changes and enhancements to production?
- Who will be responsible for migrating changes and enhancements to testing environment?
- Is test automation in scope? Who is responsible for staging test automation data?
Administrator Education
- No. of days of hands-on ad hoc administrator education
System Documentation
- Updated deployment checklist
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Data Migration & Integration
For Illustrative Purposes
Inputs
- Scoping Questionnaire
- Assumptions
Watch for
- Data Quality challenges
- Files
- Large data volumes
- API’s exist for integrating systems
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Training and Adoption Services
For Illustrative Purposes
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2. Staff Planning Methodology
Top Down
Need both to ensure an accurately estimated solution with a feasible work plan
Feature Based Estimate Risks and Concerns
• Outlines the Scope • Do Really Small or Really Large Project Need
• Facilities and enables review a Feature Based Estimate
• Does a Feature Based Estimate add risk to
• Drives both the proposal (DD) and SOW
large projects implying knowledge we don’t
• Enables Feature Negotiation Pre Sale and have?
Effective Project Management Post Sale
▪ Staffing Plan
• Considers Staffing Objectives and
Requirements
• Based on Critical Path (long pole In the tent)
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3. Reconciliation
Leverage actual costs from historic similar projects where possible for comparison estimate
Obtain estimates from expert resources responsible for actual delivery (usually most accurate)
Adhere to pre-established staffing policies and guidelines
Do not pad or trim the estimate without a corresponding change to scope or assumptions
Apply any discounting after the estimate is built
Fixed price bids should include cost risk premium vs. T&M
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Bid Review
PMO Function
Typical Sales Cycle
Deal Milestone x Review Process
Delivery Excellence
Bid Review
Regional Approvals DD
Discussion Document
CSG Leadership
Review
ROM SOW
Rough order of Statement of Work
magnitude
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Internal Reviews and Benefits
Scoping & Estimating
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Internal Reviews & Objectives
Scoping & Estimating
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Benefits of Bid Review
Scoping & Estimating
Formalize Collaboration
- Ensure deals are scoped properly and adequately staffed
- Ensure alignment between Sales and Delivery
Incorporate Lessons Learned and “Best Practices”
- Opportunity to improve deals based on learnings elsewhere in the organization
- How do you track this today to error proof (adapt your methodology)?
Distinguish well-known service offerings from new or unique deal structures
- Projects that are strategic, high-risk or high visibility receive executive attention
Summarize Risk Profile for Executives and Delivery teams
- Focus conversation on resolving potential trouble areas
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Deal Management Approval Process Dollar ranges/margins/discounts
based on the Partner Approval
Managing Delivery Risk Matrix published by Partner’s
Services Operations.
Deal Characteristics
Any services deal SOW >$xxxk Margin >= xx% Escalated deal
Margin < yy%
Activities
Service Leader Deal Review
Approvals
Level 1
Level 2
Leadership Level
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Question & Answer
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Partner Resources - Learning Paths
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Call to Action
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