Valuing agile : the financial management of agile projects / Alan Moran.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Moran, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agile software development--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 pages) : color illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : The Stationery Office, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Focusing on the financial and accounting aspects of Agile, this title offers a simple, direct and practical guide for those working as PMOs, suitable primarily for the Agile practitioner who needs to learn about financial management in projects.

Contents:

• Valuing Agile The Financial Management of Agile Projects
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• About this guide
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction to Agile
• 1.1 The Agile approach
• 1.2 Agile software development
• 1.3 Agile techniques and practices
• Table 1.1 Some common Agile techniques
• Table 1.2 Some common Agile practices
• 1.4 Product development
• Figure 1.1 The Scrum process model
• 1.5 Project management
• Figure 1.2 The DSDM process model
• 1.6 Related disciplines
• 1.7 Financial challenges
• Table 1.3 Five levels of Agile planning
• 1.8 Concluding remarks
• 2 Requirements, estimation and contracting
• 2.1 Overview
• Figure 2.1 The relationship between requirements, estimation, transaction costs and governance
• 2.2 Requirements
• Figure 2.2 User story map
• 2.3 Estimation
• Figure 2.3 The cone of uncertainty
• Figure 2.4 Planning Poker cards
• 2.4 Team velocity
• 2.5 Prioritized incremental delivery
• 2.6 Types of contracts
• 2.7 Agile contracting
• Figure 2.5 Project variables (traditional versus DSDM)
• 2.8 Government contracts
• 2.9 Concluding remarks
• 3 Strategy, budgeting andexpenditure
• 3.1 Strategy, portfolios and projects
• 3.2 Agile budgeting
• Figure 3.1 Agile cycle of planning, appraisal, funding and validation
• 3.3 Financial statements
• 3.4 Capital and operational expenditure
• Figure 3.2 DSDM partition of capital and operational expenditure
• 3.5 Concluding remarks
• 4 Profitability and Agile financial performance
• 4.1 Understanding profit
• Table 4.1 Project direct and indirect costs (i.e. overheads
• Table 4.2 Comparison on basis of apportionment
• 4.2 The significance of timing
• Table 4.3 Discounted cash flows and net present value
• Figure 4.1 Computation of NPV using Microsoft Excel
• 4.3 Agile impact on ROI.
• Figure 4.2 Comparison of NPV profiles for traditional (dashed) and Agile (solid) projects
• Figure 4.3 Decision point analysis of Agile projects
• 4.4 Worked example
• Table 4.4 Anticipated project costs and revenues
• Table 4.5 Discounted cash flows for Agile and phased project approaches
• 4.4.1 Net present value
• Figure 4.4 Discounted Agile cash flows
• 4.4.2 Profitability index
• 4.4.3 Payback period
• 4.4.4 Financial performance summary
• Table 4.6 Summary of financial performance metrics
• 4.5 Concluding remarks
• 5 Value and benefits realization
• 5.1 Understanding value
• 5.2 Social value
• 5.3 Communicating value
• 5.4 Earned value management
• Figure 5.1 Example of a burn-up chart showing schedule variance during an iteration
• Table 5.1 Project tracking metrics
• 5.5 Benefits realization and assessment
• 5.6 Concluding remarks
• 6 Managing uncertainty
• 6.1 Understanding risk
• 6.2 Agile risk management
• Figure 6.1 Mapping of risk exposure (including ranges) to risk response strategies
• Figure 6.2 Illustrative risk burn-down chart
• 6.3 Costing risk
• 6.4 Sensitivity analysis
• Table 6.1 Scenario-based project and operational cash flows
• Table 6.2 Sensitivity analysis of project cash flows
• 6.5 Foreign exchange risk
• Figure 6.3 Hedging against foreign currency risk
• Table 6.3 Transaction costs and exchange rates
• Table 6.4 Strategies for managing exchange rate risk
• 6.6 Credit risk
• 6.7 Decision point analysis
• 6.8 Concluding remarks
• Appendix A Analytical treatment of cash flows
• A.1 Project NPV and operational annuities
• A.2 Incremental rates of return
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 17, 2017).

ISBN:

0-11-708289-9