“Agile software development and traditional cost accounting don’t match.” So begins this important, original white paper from Rami Sirkia and Maarit Laanti, describing the move from traditional, project-based resource allocation and cost accounting to a leaner, faster, lower-overhead, decentralized, and far more empowered financial management model. This white paper spawned the collaboration that resulted in the SAFe Lean-Agile Lean Budgets article.

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