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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

They've started to use agile approaches. I am not a finance person. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. Why Capitalize?

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). Not the thinking and learning that go into the deliverables where you end up with something demo-able, if not usable.” ” “Oooh.”

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. Even when we use a non-agile approach , schedule variance doesn't make sense. Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything.

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