Agile Project Delivery: The Value of Relationships Built On Trust

Matthew Segall Agile, Agile Project Management, Best Practices, CFO, Collaboration, Finance, Leadership, Project Management, Software, Software Development, Team Management, Thoughts

For many businesses, executing on project delivery is like running an obstacle course full of endless challenges. One wrong move and scope expands, costs spike, or timelines extend. Suddenly, the project is off course, and teams fail to deliver. It’s an all-too-familiar scenario, yet one that can be easily avoided with teamwork.  In our last article, we introduced the idea …

Agile Project Management and the CFO

Matthew Segall Agile, Agile Project Management, Best Practices, CFO, Collaboration, Finance, Inclusion, Leadership, Project Management, Team Management, Thoughts

What is your CFO’s relationship with your IT team? If the overall corporate incentives are aligned, the engineers and the CFO will often have the same goals: complete projects that either make money or reduce costs. However, quite often, the CFO has more of an adversarial relationship with the IT team, seeing IT as a cost center that misses deadlines …