Summary

Unlike many books on Agile or Scrum in which almost no mention is made of finance, we believe that knowing the basics of finance can only enhance your chance of a successful dialogue with business management.

Without wanting to turn this book into a treatise on finance, we have chosen to cover in this chapter only a few useful concepts and formulas relating to project finance. Some are to justify project investments, some to calculate the project costs, and some are to be used during project execution to estimate how much more you will need to spend to get the job done.