Using MVPs to Budget

Budgeting in an Agile world is difficult. We request money upfront but don’t know what the project contents will be or how it will turn out. This makes it hard for both internal budgeting processes and firms to quote prices. Throughput accounting is a great solution, but not every organization is ready to make that switch. But there is a way to start the transition from big batch, cost-based funding to more value-stream-based funding—using MVPs to budget. In this episode, we're giving you an inside look into how some of our clients have taken this different approach to project budgeting that keeps one foot in the “traditional accounting world” while the other is in the “incremental delivery of value” world.

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There is a lot of material on how a team should operate in an agile manner. There is also a lot of material for leadership as to the benefits of agility, the mindset, etc. But there is not a lot of material directed towards those folks who sit in between. Agile Bites breaks down key Lean and Agile concepts and practices for the people who are often tasked with supporting these things. People who may have to be redefining their roles in a world of incremental delivery. Or maybe they’ve been put in the middle of an “agile transformation” and things are not going as well as promised.