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

Johanna Rothman

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.” However, they don't deliver value, have team-based planning, a review/demo, or a retrospective. I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.'

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

I am not a finance person. If you need to capitalize, talk to your finance people. So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. (I I'm not offering financial or legal advice. You can only capitalize the value creation work.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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More Meetings = More Clients

The Fearless Marketer

Do they look up productivity consultants on Google, find a web product page about “Productivity and Creative Services for Businesses” and then click on the buy button? Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”.

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5 key areas to Improve SAP knowledge

freshminds

Along with Oracle, it is an essential piece of software that you will be using within a big consulting firm. There are 5 key areas that you will need to work with as a consultant and it's important to understand what the different sections are. 1) SAP FI (Finance) and 2) SAP CO (Controlling). ' and understand the basics.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released.

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

Johanna Rothman

Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Because no one saw any demos, management couldn't trust the teams to deliver. The managers thought Finance needed schedule variance. That one action changed how people saw their jobs.

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