Steve Milligan on Agile Finance and Finding Synergies

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 2:23 p.m.

b'In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Milligan about his work in Agile Finance and bringing the back-office along on the agile transformation journey. \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n\\u2022\\tThe funding of agile initiatives has been largely left outside of the scope of transformation efforts, which results in dysfunction and cross purpose\\n\\u2022\\tAgile finance introduces structure so that financial aspects (target setting, budgeting, expenditure and reporting) become synergistic and add to the positive impact of transformation \\n\\u2022\\tAttitude changes need to start with the agile coaching and transformation change agents \\u2013 they self-constrain and are biased against working with finance groups\\n\\u2022\\tThe need to move from static budgets to activity-based budgets and investigate ideas like Beyond Budgeting \\n\\u2022\\tThe authoritative bodies (SEC, AICPA) have issued guidance for the accounting profession regarding investigating and determining the applicability of concepts like Beyond Budgeting\\n\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2SYlOOd\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\\n\\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2SYlOOd'