The document discusses the business case for adopting agile methods over traditional waterfall approaches. It provides examples of how agile practices like iterative development, prioritized backlogs, and frequent releases can improve financial metrics like return on investment, net present value, and break-even point. While some costs like additional training may increase under agile, benefits often outweigh these and include faster time to market, continuous feedback, and higher quality code. The document demonstrates these concepts through examples comparing financial projections of projects using waterfall, releases every 6 months, and releases every 1-3 months with and without prioritization.
In 2004, Netflix was sued by its shareholders over its reported churn rates. The shareholders argued that Netflix “[used] an improper calculation of the rate that produced an artificially low churn rate.” A judge threw out the case, ruling that there is no single industry-wide definition of churn rate.
Clearly, churn rate is a critical metric for any subscription business. But there are also a variety of opinions about how to calculate it.
In this guide we'll explore:
What is Customer Churn - What does churn mean for a subscription business?
How to Calculate Churn - What are the common formulas used by subscription businesses to calculate churn.
How to Avoid Mistakes - Avoid common pitfalls in your churn calculation with these easy tips.
In 2004, Netflix was sued by its shareholders over its reported churn rates. The shareholders argued that Netflix “[used] an improper calculation of the rate that produced an artificially low churn rate.” A judge threw out the case, ruling that there is no single industry-wide definition of churn rate.
Clearly, churn rate is a critical metric for any subscription business. But there are also a variety of opinions about how to calculate it.
In this guide we'll explore:
What is Customer Churn - What does churn mean for a subscription business?
How to Calculate Churn - What are the common formulas used by subscription businesses to calculate churn.
How to Avoid Mistakes - Avoid common pitfalls in your churn calculation with these easy tips.
The business case for agile transformationMichael Sahota
There is a wide array of qualitative and quantitative research demonstrating the benefits of Agile. Unfortunately, this research does not disambiguate between the results from Agile Adoption of practices versus Agile Transformation to a new mindset and organizational culture. In this workshop, participants will learn the key differences between Adoption and Transformation as well as characterize the key benefits of each approach. Finally, participants will relate learnings to their current organizations.
Y&R Global Planning Director Sandy Thompson delves into the concept of "Living Brands" and details how today advertising should focus on moving brands from static entities to actively living and participating in the world around us. "When it comes to marketing I think we need to stand up and fight the comfort that we have built into the old in order to discover and build new ways of helping our client's brands connect and engage with the people who matter most - their consumers," she says.
What makes people LOVE a product or brand?
What sustains that love?
These are the questions Accenture Interactive and Fjord set out to answer when embarking on The Love Index study.
The Love Index 2016 is the first annual report that measures brands – and in particular, the services and experiences they offer – on a 10-point scale across five F.R.E.S.H. dimensions plotted on a pentagon
Konzerne und Startups - Zwischen Sehnsucht, Faszination und Business CaseBarbara Heitger
Annika Serfass und Stephan Rey, Berater bei Heitger Consulting, nehmen das Spiel zwischen Konzernen und Startups unter die Lupe. Was steckt dahinter? Was sind die Treiber für diese Mühen und Investitionen: Sehnsüchte? Ängste? Geschäftssinn? Oder einfach Neugierde? Sie gehen der Faszination, die Startups in Konzernen auslösen (und vice versa…) auf den Grund und kristallisieren heraus, was machbar ist und was Fantasie bleibt.
Mehr zum Thema Konzerne und Startups finden Sie in unserem Online Magazin "Issue" http://issue.heitgerconsulting.com
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What are the big trends in mobility that will impact you and your business in 2017? What are the things you need to know and the actions you need to take to be successful?
The 2017 mobility trends report by DMI provides insights, research and recommendations on the trends that will impact consumers and organizations and reinvent business. Each trend includes real-life examples.
The presentation this year covers the following areas:
* Customer Experience including innovation, methodologies, multi-channel and IoT
* Big and small data including solving real problems and faster analytics
* Devices including the latest on smartphones, AR/VR and wearables
* Other technologies including winners in the cloud, native-hybrid and progressive web apps and DevOps
* The next big things…
Opportunities & Challenges of the Mobile Internet, and 9 Golden Rules for your Mobile Strategy.
Rules:
#1 Same same but different.
#2 Business Case first!
#3 Nahtlos über alle Kanäle.
#4 Externe Plattformen nutzen.
#5 Messen und analysieren.
#6 Mobilisieren statt miniaturisieren.
#7 Bestehende Systeme nutzen.
#8 Bei jedem Relaunch an Mobile denken.
#9 Minimale Nutzbarkeit sicherstellen.
(Presentation held at Namics Event 28.3.2012, Börse Zürich, Slides in German)
The official Ogilvy Key Digital Trends for 2017. A yearly trend report outlining both where we believe the digital and social landscape is headed and what brands and agency partners should do about it. By Marshall Manson and James Whatley
Business case:
How to make a profitable business with industry-specific intellectual property (IP) on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (For CRM Services partners, not yet an ISV)
Success factors: how to become a Top Performer with profitability > 75%
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
5. Measuring Financial Consequences
Return on Investment (ROI) // Kapitalrendite
> Measuring how much of your invested „money“ you get back in return.
Net-Present-Value (NPV) // Kapitalwert
> Sum of all revenues and payments including interests.
Break-even-Point // Gewinnschwelle
> Point in time when accumulated costs and revenue are equally large.
6. Example Case – New Car-Insurance Inventory
Ricola Insurance creates new Car-
Insurance Inventory
Project duration:
12 months
Project costs:
5.000.000 SFR
Earnings after launch:
200.000 SFR each month
Project lifespan:
5 years
7. Agile As In Scrum
Relevant for financial
consideration
> Iterative and incremental
development (Sprints)
> Prioritized requirements
(Backlog)
8. Agile As In Scrum
Not considered with potential positive impact
> Higher team productivity (intrinsic motivation, self-organisation, …)
> Reaction to changes
> Including new ideas
> Stop project in time (all features implemented; cancel project)
Possibly neutral through automation
> Frequent migration & deployment
Not considered with potential negative impact
> Impeded productivity through frequent releases (for users)
> More trainings
> Higher operating costs through running systems in parallel
31. Faster market entrance with interative,
incremental development
Functionality
First Mover Window of Opportunity
> Be the first on the market
with a new product Complete functionality of release
Fast Follower Minimal marketable functionality
> React quickly, when your Δt until product
can be launched
competitors launch a new
iterative,
product incremental
waterfall
t
32.
33.
34. Less non-valuable results
Working software every
month
Continuous customer
feedback
Intensive communication
instead of specification
35. High quality with lasting effect
Definition of Done 100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
Maintenance starts after 30%
20%
10%
2nd iteration 0%
Automating Test,
Integration and
Deployment Unstrukturiertes System
Strukturiertes Sytem
36. Andreas Ebbert-Karroum www.codecentric.de
codecentric AG, Düsseldorf
andreas.ebbert-karroum@codecentric.de