Speaker: Bryan Stallings & John Rudd

Presentation Title: The Business Case for Agile: What Every Executive Needs to Know

Track: Advancing Agility

Presentation Time: 11:00am
Duration: 90 minutes

Too many technology projects fail to deliver on the expected value. Some don’t deliver at all. From experience we’ve all come to know the outcomes of software initiatives where results aren’t matching forecasts. The application of traditional project management methods offer poor risk mitigation and continues to frustrate business professionals.

The impact of today’s economy only adds to the challenge, forcing financial and technology professionals to make tough decisions in order to free up capital, reduce cost, and increase overall project and portfolio return. Business as usual is risky. In the current economic environment, businesses are forced to reduce those capital budgets as they cannot afford to make significant investments without more certainty of returns.

Do Agile practices offer an attractive alternative to wholesale cost cutting? How can we reduce cash commitments to projects? Can we align incremental cost with incremental value? Are there proven practices that will enable us to realize more value, sooner, with better results?

In this session, we discuss some of the financial benefits of adopting Agile, and quantify the potential value of these innovative practices for your organization. We will also discuss how you can demonstrate this value for key decision makers.

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Joining Bryan Stallings will be John Rudd, President and CFO of SolutionsIQ. Bryan and John will share how they enable organizations to gain more value, sooner and with a better returns.