Fresh Approach, Appetising Results

Early Business Benefit

With deep experience in Agile development best practices, Mastek could offer Morrisons a collaborative way of working that started delivering results sooner than expected and with much more cost certainty.

Despite challenging timescales, Mastek started by delivering the first work pack a day ahead of schedule, with no defects. And with each staged release of the solution, Morrisons got useful new intelligence functionality — without having to wait for completion of the whole project and without any interruption to business-as-usual operations.

Cost Control

Mastek proposed a pricing model — combining outcomes-based fixed pricing and a transparent rate card for time-costed work — that gave Morrisons confidence that costs wouldn't escalate uncontrollably. Costs were also controlled through a flexible mix of onsite and offshore resource.

Mastek and Morrisons created a win-win situation by jointly working to transition services offshore, wherever possible, for enhanced flexibility and cost reduction.

Nick Cooper, IT Delivery Director, Morrisons

Success Factors

Besides a flexible mix of agile and traditional methodologies and a compelling pricing model, Mastek offered Morrisons:

Deep and broad BI expertise
The flexibility to quickly scale either onsite or offshore teams
A collaborative 'one team' ethos, with transparency and a 'can do' approach to problem-solving

The transferable skills that the've got, the architecture mindset that they've got, they're fantastic at problem-solving and that's kind of why we want to continue using that relationship.