Trends Report

Agile Leadership Requires A Different Kind Of Business Case

December 30th, 2021
Margo Visitacion, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Margo Visitacion Vice President, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Chris Gardner , Zachary Stone , Jeffrey Hammond , Jen Barton

Summary

Business leaders want the speed of agile to meet pressing requirements for new software. But they are reluctant to transition from the false comfort of traditional, written business cases to iterative funding and value measurement. To scale agile to the enterprise, business cases must evolve from making investment bets to consistently measuring feedback and gauging future investments. This report shows how application development and delivery (AD&D) pros can work with finance and other executives to build effective methods for assessing and prioritizing software investments.

Want to read the full report?

Contact us to become a client

This report is available for individual purchase ($1495).

Forrester helps business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth. That means empowering you to put the customer at the center of everything you do: your leadership strategy, and operations. Becoming a customer-obsessed organization requires change — it requires being bold. We give business and technology leaders the confidence to put bold into action, shaping and guiding how to navigate today's unprecedented change in order to succeed.