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Agile benefits – Part 1 – Reducing Work in Progress
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about Agile within IT Services. Many universities and companies are successfully using Agile to manage their IT projects. Agile promises a number of benefits that are very appealing to IT Services. In this post, I want to point out one of those benefits that have been mentioned in…
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Agile benefits – Part 2 – Frequent releases
Another aspect promoted by Agile is the concept of frequent releases. To demonstrate this, I’m going to draw on a real, current project that I’m involved in. In this project, we’re developing a set of applications that contain approximately 15 major features between them. While there is a basic framework that ties them together, most…
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Change is hard — here’s why
Jeff Toaddy and I recently attended an online course for ITIL’s Service Transition processes. These are the processes by which new services, or significant changes to existing ones, are put into an ongoing, operational mode. As a footnote in the training, there was a mention to the 10 reasons people resist change: Loss of control. Excessive…
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A brief message from the Administrative Assistants!
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Agile IA??? What is that??
For the past year, the Institutional Analytics (IA) team has been working as an agile development team-but what does that mean? The key feature of agile is incremental, value driven delivery. Currently, new code can be deployed in test each week with planned production moves every four weeks. This approach gives clients new features incrementally…
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