Ian Brookes Cake Solutions Today I dialled into a webinar on the financials of Agile given by Ian Brookes of Cake Solutions. A webinar gives you a window in which you can see the slides from the presentation and hear audio from the presentation. I worked quite well, but the audio was flaky at times. I enjoyed the presentation, its content and Ian’s style. Here are some of the things Ian covered. Ian started off by running through what Agile is and pointing out that it doesn’t cost any less than traditional software development processes such as waterfall. The added value is the fact that it delivers what the business needs, in contrast to traditional processes which can (sometimes) deliver on budget and on time, but usually don’t deliver what is required by the business. He also pointed out that Agile excels at delivering the most valuable features, rather than a lot of features that are unlikely to be used. Ian went on to explain how the Agile estimation process works, including plann...