Comments on: Agile Cuts Costs by a Factor of Four – or More! http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/03/agile-cuts-costs-by-a-factor-of-four-or-more/ Adopt, Scale and Succeed with Agile Development Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:33:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kirk Thoughts » Daily post (weekly) http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/03/agile-cuts-costs-by-a-factor-of-four-or-more/#comment-383 Kirk Thoughts » Daily post (weekly) Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:43:21 +0000 http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/?p=619#comment-383 [...] Agile Cuts Costs by a Factor of Four - or More! | Agile Blog: Succeed with Agile Development [...] [...] Agile Cuts Costs by a Factor of Four – or More! | Agile Blog: Succeed with Agile Development [...]

]]> By: Ryan Martens http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/03/agile-cuts-costs-by-a-factor-of-four-or-more/#comment-368 Ryan Martens Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:01:44 +0000 http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/?p=619#comment-368 PM Hut - I totally agree! - truly going agile versus adopting agile in name only is not just a change in process. It takes the whole team and organization to get 4 to 10X better productivity and it changes everything including strategy, organization, enabling technology and process. The point of my post was to show that the managerial economics are possible using document changes observed in large, scale distributed teams. I hope that helps? Ryan PM Hut – I totally agree! – truly going agile versus adopting agile in name only is not just a change in process. It takes the whole team and organization to get 4 to 10X better productivity and it changes everything including strategy, organization, enabling technology and process. The point of my post was to show that the managerial economics are possible using document changes observed in large, scale distributed teams.

I hope that helps?
Ryan

]]> By: The Project Management Hut http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/03/agile-cuts-costs-by-a-factor-of-four-or-more/#comment-367 The Project Management Hut Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:06:43 +0000 http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/?p=619#comment-367 Thanks for this excellent post. I'm sure a lot of Project Managers out there will strongly disagree with you (I wonder how come no one commented on this post yet), Agilists, of course, will definitely agree. I'm not going to discuss the charts or the numbers, but I have to say that cutting costs by 4-6-8-10 is no easy thing, and I don't think it should be attributed to the methodology (alone), the Project Manager and the Project Team should have the lion's share of the credit for such achievement. Thanks for this excellent post.

I’m sure a lot of Project Managers out there will strongly disagree with you (I wonder how come no one commented on this post yet), Agilists, of course, will definitely agree.

I’m not going to discuss the charts or the numbers, but I have to say that cutting costs by 4-6-8-10 is no easy thing, and I don’t think it should be attributed to the methodology (alone), the Project Manager and the Project Team should have the lion’s share of the credit for such achievement.

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