Lean Budgets

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Agile software development and traditional cost accounting don’t match.

Rami Sirkia and Maarit Laanti

Lean Budgets is a set of practices that minimize overhead by funding and empowering Value Streams rather than projects while maintaining financial and fitness-for-use governance. This is achieved through objective evaluation of working systems, active management of Epic investments, and dynamic budget adjustments.

Each SAFe Portfolio exists for a purpose: to realize some set of Solutions that enable the business strategy. Each portfolio must work within an approved budget, as the operating costs for solution development are a primary ...

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