By cost-effective is meant to balance the achieved value against the investment of capital and funds. It is not necessarily the case that individual components in the cloud have a lower cost than a more traditional IT infrastructure, but the whole and the total lifetime cost will here be able to make a financial difference.

Automatization - a crucial success factor

Establishment of functionality to be used after the solution is established in the cloud must be included in the backlog, and then delivered through the sprinter. Here, automatization is a keyword.

A driver for automatization is to have a basic strategy that enables the development team to ensure green lights, as well as maintain the solution so that it is "as good as new" at all times. This presupposes that the team thinks about this responsibility from the design phase. Therefore, it is essential that there are resources in the interdisciplinary team that have knowledge and experience of which functionalities for operation and maintenance must be in place.

To ensure the stability of the knowledge in the team, there should be continuity in the composition of resources throughout the life cycle of the application.