Mentormate

JANUARY 12, 2021

On every large software project — Agile or otherwise — there are management and finance team members who want to understand how much it’s going to cost. For an existing Agile project , there’s usually a predetermined budget that accounts for all of the year’s planned features and projects. How do you know what to budget for?

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the pillars of the ADAPT Methodology™ is the Agility part, that`s why talking about Agile Transformation Mistakes is very important! In this blog post, we make you aware of 14 common Agile Transformation Mistakes that you must avoid at any cost! Agile Transformation Mistakes 1. This roadmap will help you!

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Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Jutta Eckstein explains what the Agile Manifesto means for company-wide agility and introduces a synthesis of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy, & Agile.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we are going to overview the different Agile Estimation techniques. Not only above, after all we need to have an Agreement with the parties or stakeholders involved based on above, on deliverables, dates & budget. Below are the Agile estimation techniques which are more effort based rather than time based.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 9, 2020

Most “agile” initiatives fail to meet their value, time and budget goals despite spending ½ their time and 1?3 3 of their budget designing and planning upfront.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 4, 2020

During the last few years we have witnessed the amazing revival of an almost 50 year old management idea called “Objectives and Key Results” (OKR). The former Intel CEO Andy Grove introduced the concept in this company in the seventies, as described in his 1983 book “High Output Management”. John Doerr, a former Intel employee, … Continued.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Cost-efficiency and expectations of agility should be integral to a properly orchestrated cloud-migration program. Agility is not always well understood,” explains DePerro.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Even 20 people in a meeting takes too long.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Wipro study showed “deviations from budget decreased by 30%”. Let’s ignore the cringing focus on budget, when it should be on building the right product, as it does show that familiarity aids predictability. In the “Impact of Agile Quantified” [ 6 ] , Larry Maccherone showed that stable teams had 40% better predictability.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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Gorilla Logic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The benefits of Agile software development extend far beyond higher-quality products delivered on time and on budget. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why the Agile methodology has become so popular amongst development teams and break down 5 key benefits of Agile software development: 1. What is Agile?

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Coveros

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While business agility and efficiency is still a critical goal of most organizations, many are hamstrung by legacy organizational structure and management practices. So how can organizations continue to evolve and deliver better agility and efficiency? When it comes to ensuring the future of agile, we must get back to the basics.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. And yet we must.

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Luis Goncalves

JUNE 6, 2018

It’s interesting that a lot of IT projects are considered as failures even though the development teams were able to submit the output on time and within budget. Luckily, the agile method does away with most of these problems, making it easier to manage and close projects on a high note. What is Agile Portfolio Management?

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Mentormate

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the two decades since its introduction, the Agile methodology and its core idea of minimum viable product have risen to prominence in software development. These are compatible approaches that can yield products with better traction, higher value, and greater long-term results than Agile alone. The Agile Revolution.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

My talk on “Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!” My slides are posted here - Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Successful.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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James Shore

MAY 25, 2022

Given a limited budget, which aspects of observability would you prioritize first? The Art of Agile Development Book Club takes place Fridays from 8:00 – 8:45am Pacific. For more about the book, visit the Art of Agile Development home page. What does it look like in practice? What does it mean for software to be observable?

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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Accenture

JULY 10, 2019

For all the ink that is spilled calling to revolutionize things like annual budgeting cycles or performance management, these were once very effective innovations. Take budgeting, where the inventor actually was James O. Who Does the Budget Serve? Why do we budget? What is the purpose of a budget? Budget as Target.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending.

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CIO

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

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DevOps.com

MAY 9, 2019

Agile environments increasingly are becoming a popular option for organizations large and small. Although initially created as a solution for small software development teams with short budgets and complex scopes, it’s been adopted (and refashioned) for all industries and team sizes.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. Agile Development So, how should you handle this conundrum?

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RapidValue

AUGUST 12, 2020

In our previous blog , we had discussed the key Agile metrics that businesses use to optimize their product development processes. Taking the topic further, in this blog post, we are going to delve into the benefits of agile methodology that have helped it gain traction in the world of software development.

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Datavail

AUGUST 5, 2020

The agile software development methodology has surged in popularity in recent years—and for good reason. More than 40 percent of companies say that they’re now using agile with their development and IT operations teams. But the agile methodology, like any way to develop software, isn’t perfect.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Layoffs and budget cuts abound. Up to 80% of a CIO’s budget can be spent maintaining legacy systems, according to some estimates. They will become even more apparent as you watch the speed, agility, and efficiency of your applications skyrocket. 98% of U.S. CEOs indicate they are anticipating a recession.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. Dell What are the benefits of a universal storage layer?

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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