Cost-Delay-Quality Decision Scenarios
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This is a major objective of a global FinOps approach, helping to achieve the right trade-off between the 3 dimensions: Cost, Speed, Quality.
To be able to make the right choices, it may be useful to set up a scoring of optimization opportunities based on weighted impacts including :
- Costs
- Time-to-Market
- Quality
- Reliability
- Resilience
- Business impact
Let's take an example with 3 scenarios:
| IMPACTS | POIDS | SC. 1 | SC. 2 | SC. 3 |
| Coûts | 20 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Time-to-Market | 10 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Qualité | 25 | -1 | 1 | 2 |
| Fiabilité | 20 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Résilience | 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Business | 15 | -1 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 100 | 50 | 85 | 145 |
By comparing each score for each dimension we can see for example that scenario A represents the best impact on costs and time-to-market.
But by calculating the weighted scores we realize that, in our specific case, scenario C is the best, in terms of total score but also because it has only positive or neutral impacts.
With a representation of this type, one can compare for each dimension but also the total. It is also a demonstration that one must remain vigilant in the way information is presented, in order to be able to make the right choices adapted to the company.
