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Planning A Yearly Budget For A Long-Term Agile Project

Mentormate

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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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Stakeholder expectations Stakeholders can be any person or group with a vested stake in the success of a project, program, or portfolio, including team members, functional groups, sponsors, vendors, and customers. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

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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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO

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.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

“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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Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!

scruminc

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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Agile Portfolio Management Definition: How To Run Your Company at Its Fullest Potential

Luis Goncalves

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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