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

Leading Agile

Back in the Summer of 2018, I spoke at the Agile2018 Conference under the topic of “Addressing Your CFO’s Concerns to an Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation.” Return on Investment or ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment. Payback Period.

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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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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development. Ranging from embedded flight control systems for winged vehicles to orbiting spacecraft, to Software Intensive System of Systems from industrial, business, and financial systems.

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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. This decision model for software development projects addressed: performance, cost, time, and risk. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. References . [1]

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Systems Engineering and Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

Finance, social, political. INCOSE has a Systems Engineering Journal as well with papers speaking to software development complexities . Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Can Enterprise Agile Be Bottom Up? This is the professional society for Systems Engineers.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Agile Project Management. Project Management Software & Tools. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Other – 6%.

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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.