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How can learning Scrum help your Finance Career?
We live in an era with increased data accessibility and rapid change. Finance leaders must keep up with these trends so many of them are recurring to nurturing and agile culture within their teams and organizations.
One way of doing this is going beyond traditional project management practices and innovate by introducing “agile methodologies” such as Scrum.
But let’s start from the beginning.
What is Scrum?
Scrum is a framework used by people and teams to solve problems and add value to their organizations.
It has been typically used in tech companies or software development teams but nowadays other professions are learning the framework and applying it to their jobs. And Finance is one of those professions.
For example, finance analysts and managers must be good problem solvers. They ought to be able to solve financial puzzles and put pieces together to add value to their companies.
And one way that they can be able to do their job better is through the learning of different tools, techniques and frameworks.
Through this article we are going to explore three main things:
- How can Scrum be used in Finance?
- Practical Applications of Scrum and Agile in Corporate Finance and FP&A
- Why should you learn Scrum?
- How to learn Scrum?
