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How to Fund a Software Development Project

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A critical success factor for a software development project is how it is funded. In this blog I’ll explore several common options for funding software development projects. An important business agility principle is that context counts. Requires stakeholders to actively monitor and govern the team’s finances. ·In

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements.

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Agile Organisations: Unleashing the Potential of Value Streams

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Your company has embraced agile and teams now enjoy greater focus and clearer collaboration. Although agile has markedly improved organisations, the full benefits are unattainable unless the entire work system is aligned with agile principles. Yet the anticipated business benefits have not materialized.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. While scrum has been scaled to apply to bigger projects and organizations, its roots are in agile software development and has come to work seamlessly in that smaller, nimble environment.

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

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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.” What’s to say that a new marketing program is more or less important you’re your agile transformation? Trust me, they won’t bite. They are there to support you and your efforts.

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

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The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in an Agile fashion. Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment.

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Five Ways OKRs Accelerate Your Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Achieving lasting change to an organization through an Agile Transformation or increasing Business Agility is not for the faint of heart. In contrast, Business Agility is intended to be flexible. A goal of Agile Transformations is, in part, to gain the ability to adapt to what can be empirically shown to be true.