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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. Stage gate: With this strategy we estimate and then fund the project for a given period of time before going back for more funding.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Assign work to your team members, manage resources, estimate costs, automate workflows and much more. The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum.

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

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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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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

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ProjectManager’s workflow automation saves time when managing IT finances. Chief Financial Officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for the management of a business’ finances , including those related to IT. What might not be so clear is how to effectively manage IT finances.

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What Is an IT Budget? IT Budgeting Basics (Template Included)

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This will include an accurate estimate of decentralized IT spending and shadow IT spending, the former being the distribution of functions, control and information, while the latter is IT-related hardware and software use without the knowledge of the IT department. You can’t manage your IT finances without an IT budget.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

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There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. Agile Alliance, a global nonprofit membership organization founded on the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agile 2022. Future PMO.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.