Agile: Strategic Cost Management

Authors

  • วัชธนพงศ์ ยอดราช -
  • พรรณทิพย์ อย่างกลั่น

Keywords:

Agile, flexibility, Agile accounting, Strategic management

Abstract

This article aims to study the applying agile concept in strategic cost management for responding to business changes by increasing flexibility in implementing or integrating appreciation and possibility. Building the concept of strategic planning which suitable for apply agile may interest for cost and project success. Agile is a mechanism focusing on cooperation, fast response to change and create valuable work for customer. There will cover several issues such as “Scrum”, short loop management calls “Sprints” and “Kanban” which focus on continuous flow production. Agile has flexibility to support efficiency of team work and could be able to change plan rely on changing needs and strategic costs. Agile is a new concept which apply for strategic costs management and to support executive for better costs management and decision makings also help to adjust the roles of accounting and finance director to be a strategic position which able to predict and adapt to future challenges. Agile can be applied for organization but have to consider several dimensions of context because agile is not suitable for every organization or projects.

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2025-10-31

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ยอดราช ว., & อย่างกลั่น พ. . (2025). Agile: Strategic Cost Management. The Journal of Development Administration Research, 15(3-4), 3131–3144. retrieved from https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JDAR/article/view/280608

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