Valuing agile the financial management of agile projects

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Moran, Alan, author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	London, [England] : The Stationery Office 2016.
Edición:	1st edition
Materias:	Agile software development > Management.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630243306719

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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.

Valuing agile the financial management of agile projects

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