Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity Thompson
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davidparker

Agile development methodologies are rapidly gaining ground in distributed applications development environments, but less so for mainframe teams. What is preventing your mainframe shop from adopting Agile?
Posted 5/21/2007 12:56 PM

eburke

David - in many ways the mainframe developers are in a much better position to implement agile. The concepts of interative development and tools and process displine around release management in the mainframe environment makes iterations and 'shippable code' at the end of each sprint a real possiblility. During a recent Certified Scrum Master training course I attended, we had a mainframe application manager in the class that had already implemented scrum and was releasing to prodution at the end of every two week sprint.
The key is process displine and tools to release shippable code on a 2-4 week basis (don't look now, but the mainframe guys have been doing this for a long time!)
Posted 8/14/2007 12:51 PM

davidparker

Eric, Thanks for yor response. I did a straw poll at the recent Share conference in San Diego. I'd have to say that most of the people I asked had no real familiarity with the term "Agile", but they were certainly practicing aspects of it.
Posted 8/21/2007 7:47 PM

marklevy

Hey, if you look at ChangeMan ZMF and the concept of a package. I can easily see it as a concept the fits very nicely in a agile dev environment. A group of packages can be thought of as a sprint..ZMF can very easily work within a agile methodology
Posted 8/21/2007 10:53 PM





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