arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
Thank you Rob.
I have read your comments and it is enlightening.
What other technical projects did you successfully use Agile?
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Rob KurtzSenior Project Manager| World Wide TechnologyO Fallon, Il, United States
Our support teams are using Kanban in Jira and Trello to track all planned work requests (ennancements, etc.) to any of our legacy managed hosting products. However, there are a few projects that we still need to execute the old-fashioned way as they dont' fit the agile model very well.
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Rob KurtzSenior Project Manager| World Wide TechnologyO Fallon, Il, United States
Our support teams are using Kanban in Jira and Trello to track all planned work requests (ennancements, etc.) to any of our legacy managed hosting products. However, there are a few projects that we still need to execute the old-fashioned way as they dont' fit the agile model very well.
if you need to apply one approach to a mixed project (like software development AND infrastructure) you may think of sprints for infra work in the style of phases - but you're running kind of hybrid then.
Still, there are things that can be done in sprints such as documentation (concepts, installation and operations manuals, and all those that are usually needed for ops). If you're not dependent on a vendor to provide you with hardware because of existing hardware and virtualization or even complete cloud hosting you can also fit infrastructure tasks into sprints like setting up the several environments (DEV, STAGE, LIVE), configuration, and so on.The interdependencies and mandatory sequences don't appear very agile, though. ;)
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arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
Thank you Rob and Christina for the very helpful and informative replies. Saving Changes...
Yes I have used agile in various industries and my current research is about experimenting with construction projects. Take the example of construction projects currently underway in UAE, most of which are agile by nature. Saving Changes...
