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Agile does not work well for service teams like tech-ops and stand-alone qa teams. Strict kanban works better for those. It still does work well for us even wh
by inanutshellus 10y ago
Agile does not work well for service teams like tech-ops and stand-alone qa teams. Strict kanban works better for those.
It still does work well for us even when we have multiple projects. Those multiple projects are time-sliced rather than resource-sliced whenever possible. In other words, keep your team focus on one thing for a given day. It's harder to get buy-in from your team to try it than it is to actually do and see succeed.
- UK-AL 10y agoKanban is an Agile Methodology.
- dragonwriter 10y agoYou seem to be using "Agile" to mean some particular methodology, probably (at least, this is usual when this mistake is made), Scrum. But Agile isn't a methodology; it is a set of principles and priorities for use in determining (and adapting over time) the right methodology for a particular operation. There are a number of methodologies that have been described as a result of (in theory, at least) applying Agile principles in particular environments. Scrum is one of those, but so is Kanban (and so are hybrids of the two, sometimes called "ScrumBan".)
- inanutshellus 10y agoI can't edit it now, but, instead of saying "Agile (sic) doesn't work well for service teams" I should've said "Choose your own flavor of Agile Methodology to suit your needs".