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Agile Finance: How Do You Make a Business Case for Transformation?

Leading Agile

In that discussion, I covered a range of topics – Building a Business Case and the Key Financial Metrics that should be provided in your Business Case, Understanding your Company’s Software Development Costs, the Importance of Benchmarking, Importance of keeping your Asset Management current, and Capitalizing and Amortizing Software Costs.

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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. In the product development world, the funding, recording of revenue, management of staffing at the financial level is managed as a Project. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

AHP was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Thomas Saaty. In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Using this method, the performance, cost, time, and risks of alternatives can be articulated as ratios that can then be compared with one another. I came to AHP through a seminar by Dr. James T. References .

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Function - A supportive PMO provides guidance, best practices, templates, and tools.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Fallacy of the Week

Herding Cats

Have sufficient Technical Performance Measures margin to cover the required performance measure of the Capabilities. For example throughput , we need enough margin in the delivered product to meet or exceed the customer's need without spending too much time or money to provide that margin.