Tips to getting your CFO onboard with your Agile Project #Agile #Lean

Don’t let your Agile projects get stalled at the CFO’s desk. They’re looking for ways to increase returns, oversee investments, implement controls, gain transparency, provide better data to the enterprise, and, of course, manage costs.

There are some great tips and useful explanations in the AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog’s CFO Series: An Executive View of Lean and Agile IT by Mark Schwartz.

Over the last two decades, the IT profession has developed new ways of working that are intended to deliver better business value more quickly and at lower risk. Or as Jonathan Smart of Barclay’s likes to say, “Better, Faster, Safer, Happier.”

There are buzzwords associated with these techniques, of course, as with everything in IT—in this case, Agile, Lean, and DevOps are the terms to know. Unfortunately, these techniques are often presented as IT-focused, with unclear benefits for the enterprise. They even seem to bring with them a danger that they might undermine the CFO’s or CEO’s ability to oversee IT-related initiatives.

They do nothing of the sort. Agile, Lean, and DevOps are ways of delivering business value, streamlining digital delivery, fostering innovation, and making the enterprise nimbler. I believe that they are the best thing that has happened to CFOs since the invention of the spreadsheet, helping them to increase returns, oversee investments, implement controls, gain transparency, provide better data to the enterprise, and, of course, manage costs.

Read the rest of this article by following this link. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/cfo-series-an-executive-view-of-lean-and-agile-it/