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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts. There are not specific to Agile Software Development. But here's how they are connected.

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12 Incredible Reasons You Should Get a SAFeĀ® Agile Certification

Agilemania

Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. A SAFe Agile certification teaches you the skills of Lean Portfolio Management and Lean finance to make decisions based on economics and estimation. Build Incrementally with quicker integrated cycles. Base milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems.

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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

A rough estimation of the budget required. A suggestion on how to finance the transformation./li> The team will establish a Sprint cadence, usually two weeks, in which they will plan, execute, and review their work. A way to identify possible change agents to support the transformation effort bottom-up.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. He confirms the benefits outweigh the investment and puts the business case to the Finance Director for approval. Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

And not only like the CIOs are interested but the CEOs are interested, and the finance people are interested in the product, people are interested in the market, there’s a lot of stuff that’s interested. We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? They understand the acceptance criteria.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

Now, let’s talk about why estimating in hours is absolutely critical for what they’re responsible for and what cannot be done without it. It’s crucial to get the executives to stop thinking that way. Yeah, we’ll have a chance to discuss it further towards the end. Let’s consider predictability.

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