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Agile or adaptative delivery approach applied in the construction industry

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CEDRIC KAMDEM KAMGAING Project Manager| Power Smart Contracting Co., LTD Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mainland
I've once followed a great debate about agile or adaptative and predictive or waterfall approaches applied to the construction industry; i've witnessed the value of an agile approach: resource prioritization and optimization in the design phase for instance while still failling to grasp how an hybrid approach could be implemented during construction phase. Any insight on the topic will be much appreciated.
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CEDRIC KAMDEM KAMGAING Project Manager| Power Smart Contracting Co., LTD Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mainland
Nov 12, 2019 11:31 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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I agree with Kiron. You can apply the Agile mindset but being fully adaptive might not work well in Construction. Taking an Adaptive-Waterfall hybrid approach would probably work best especially on large construction jobs.
i agree with you a hybrid approach will work best since most projects cannot really all follow a single approach from start to end, there is always the need to adapt the approach to the situation. it is question to identify when ones can be agile and when he can be predictive, the combinaison of both with sure produce good yields
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CEDRIC KAMDEM KAMGAING Project Manager| Power Smart Contracting Co., LTD Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mainland
Nov 12, 2019 11:50 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Cedric
Interesting question
Thanks for sharing

What do you tell me about the idea of a hybrid development approach?

Agile, Predictive and Iterative
hybrid developememnt approach for me can work in the construction industry especially with projects in highly regulated environments where mock ups of the final products need to be produced and validated before moving forward
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CEDRIC KAMDEM KAMGAING Project Manager| Power Smart Contracting Co., LTD Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mainland
Nov 12, 2019 12:49 PM
Replying to Eric Simms
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Agile is noted for its ability to produce a working product every two weeks (approximately) to which additional functionality can be added. Can you give me an example of a component/modular or 3D printed construction product that fits that criteria? When I think of 'construction' large buildings, bridges, and the like come to mind. There might be construction products for which Agile would work well, but I can't think of any.
hi Eric,
large scales construction projects in higly regulated environment require to produce a fully functionnal model of parts of the end result to be validated prior to moving forward especially construction of large buildings and bridges, mock ups must be produced first in the design and even the construction phase and those mock ups might be integrated as part of the final result in the construction phase. this is also a way to get early feedbacks on requirements from stakeholders, modify and add functionnality to models that will serve as baseline for the other parts of the end result, although the sprint time might not be as short as in other industries. i think the combo of both approaches can yield great results as long as they are tailored to the relevant situation.
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