Two years ago I presented the story of a client in the US who underwent a very fast and aggressive transformation. Although it was ultimately successful, along the way, we nearly destroyed it all. The saving grace was a small group of courageous leaders who made some tough decisions to get things back on track, and continued to drive the progress needed to succeed. The success story was presented at TAC in 2014 and the near colossal failure story was presented at Agile 2015. We bring this amazing story together into a single talk with many important lessons.

As more and more organizations adopt agile software development practices in large and complex environments, IT and corporate Finance teams are struggling to appropriately capitalize agile projects and agile product-based development. Existing organizational models and government regulations are based on traditional methodologies, which track capital and operating expenses of discrete project phases, with clear delineations. How do you decide, measure and track these in an agile environment with delivery phases intertwined within time-boxed cycles? There are opinions, but at Deloitte, we have looked into this challenge and collaborated with our agile and finance experts to develop, test and implement solutions with clients.

In this talk, we'll share our point of view on the important considerations for accurate and appropriate capitalization in product-based organizations using process frameworks like Scrum.

Drop in to hear about what we've done and get some ideas on how to move forward with your own capitalization challenges.

The approach is simple, but more importantly, has been tested in the real world.