Construction Industry has been an uncertain domain, and frequently changes occur wrt scope so as to achieve the project deliverable. How far can we adopt agile concepts in Construction arena? Can anyone throw some light or insights if you have applied agile approach in executing your respective project in construction domain. Kindly share the experience. Saving Changes...
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Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Malla, my personal experience has always been that the biggest stumbling block to overcome when trying to adopt an adaptive approach on a construction project is governance. You first need to figure out how you are going to navigate through all the governance requirements that is a trademark of construction projects before you can even consider going agile or Agile. I've often spend time and effort only to realize there was some governance requirement that must be met prohibiting the implementation of certain agile concepts. Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation is typically one of those concepts. Determine which concepts will be beneficial to your project and see whether you might have any governance constraints in its path. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
It was more than a discussion in this site about that.I have experience in applying Agile practices to this type of projects in the past including one in 1999 that got a PMI award and others international institutes award. Key is to understand that Agile is not to use a method (no matter in the case I mentioned we use DSDM), is not about software or IT, did not start with the Manifesto (as it name stated the Manifesto is for software), is not about to use a process or life cycle. Saving Changes...
Pench BattaEnterprise Lean Agile DevOps Coach /SAFe Program Consultant (SPC6)| Capgemini, Inc.Bentonville, Ar, United States
Great insights from both Anton and Sergio. In Agile, change is always acceptable as long as it is within the scope. With agile mindset, I think it will fit in the construction area also. Unfortunately, I never worked in construction. Saving Changes...
Agree with Anton & Sergio. I don't have any experience in Construction industry but just would like to quote some example from the Agile guide from PMI's PMBoK. If you are going to try building something innovative , I believe Agile can be used in there, to do some construction work iteratively so as to get early feedback from your customers. Please consider the economic tradeoffs and other compliance related activities. Saving Changes...
Pablo Cesar Garcia BonillaConstruction Contracts Manager / Construction Manager| Green Soul EngineeringSan Jose, Costa Rica
Hi, I think if you can use some kind of Integraded Project Delivery (IPD) method, you can use a lot of agile concepts, IPD is not easy to use, as construction is full of contract-based thiking. A project delivered with IPD and for instance a CMa (Construction Management as agent) aproach can fit to many agile concepts. Saving Changes...
