At today’s pace of change, the complexity and dynamics of the business environment forces a fresh approach to creating products that meet customer expectations. In this context, agile, user-centered approaches, including scrum and kanban, are even more applicable and important. In this article, you will learn about both of these approaches, their similarities, differences and the ways you can use them when working on your digital products.

Agile working is all about innovation, especially in software development. Innovation means change, often lots of it, including changes to your software project along the way. To manage that project, what’s needed are approaches that are both flexible and focused. And that includes your approach to budget management. Agile budgeting is a way of managing the investment in your project that responds to change – changing user requirements, changing business needs, changing circumstances. It’s budget management that can pivot with the project.

You came up with this mind-blowing product idea which you’re certain is going to revolutionize the market. Now all you have to do is turn that idea into reality. Easy! No, not really – achieving reality requires a lot of decision making!