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How to Open an LLC for a Software Development Business?

Productivity Land

Software development is a huge and growing industry, worth nearly half a trillion dollars in the U.S. If you’re joining the industry and starting your own software development business, you’ll want to get off to a good start by properly setting up your business entity.

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Are the right stakeholders involved each iteration and are they interacting with the development teams? Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs.

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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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IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

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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Cost and Value Management for Software Development

Herding Cats

This, of course, is a violation of the principles of Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of software development in the presence of uncertainty and scarce resources. Software Project Cost Estimation . There are numerous horror stories about software development cost and schedule overruns.

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Trello vs. Jira: In-Depth Software Comparison

ProjectManager.com

For example, it’s used in software development for planning and launching campaigns, tracking bugs and release management. Jira is used across industries and it’s commonly found in software development, where teams use its core features and agile functionality. What Is Jira Used For?

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How do you apply Scrum outside of Software Development?

Scrum.org

While Scrum came out of the field of software development, and is still often used by teams developing software, Scrum is used in lots of other fields: marketing, academia, finance, hardware, and many others. How does Scrum work in these cases? What do you show at a Sprint Review?