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DevOps is in a serious disruption phase. Traditionalists cling to what they know — the waterfall methodology has long been favoured by enterprise environments for its rigorous documentation and governance.
At the same time, waterfall has taken a serious black eye from agile zealots inside startups and enterprise, judging it to be too slow and clunky for them. But what’s the truth? Do these two methodologies actually have the ability to compliment one another?
“Demonizing traditional methods like waterfall as slow and unresponsive and parading agile as the cure-all pill for delivery woes is all the rage these days,” said Rich Morrow, cloud architect for quiCloud. “But, the practice is rarely that simple, and in an organization as complex as today’s enterprise, each really has its place. The majority of enterprises use a combination of the two.”
Morrow is a featured speaker at next week’s webinar that will explore if, and how, these two methodologies can work hand in hand.
The fact is that companies run into trouble — be they enterprise, SMB, or startup — when they start using a single methodology as their only hammer. As a result, every problem starts looking like a nail. It’s why the planning stage is the most critical, and as important, why management should avoid presuming they have the answer before the first meeting is even called.
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Says Morrow: “The decision to ‘go agile’ or not is typically where most project managers start the dizzying process of determining appropriate roles, structure, and reporting.” But according to Morrow, that ends up with blindly overlaying a methodology on a team independent of many other important factors, not least of which is how the team works and the company’s culture and beliefs.
Is there a happy place residing in a hybridized approach to agile and waterfall — or other DevOps methodologies?
Join us for this not-to-be-missed webinar certain to spark some pretty animated discussion and debate.
What you’ll learn:
- The benefits and drawbacks of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- The pros and cons of integrating Agile and Waterfall into a hybrid methodology
- How businesses can encourage and capture communication between relevant parties, regardless of methodology
- How businesses should scope and measure goals and success metrics when planning a project
- How IT can bridge the understanding gap between methodologies by providing common metrics
- How businesses should adjust their culture to increase flexibility and communication
- The first steps businesses should take to implement a hybrid methodology
Panelists
David Linthicum – Senior Vice President; Cloud Technology Partners
Steve Michaelis – Senior Solutions Engineer; Workfront, Inc.
Jeff Latimer – Associate Director of Information Technology; Florida State University
Rich Morrow – Principal Engineer; quicloud
Moderator
Wendy Schuchart, VB Analyst
This webinar is made possible with the support of Workfront.