Thinking about IT Operations and Kanban

As our developers are transitioning to an agile methodology, we have been figuring out how to adapt our operational processes to a more regular schedule that fixed-length, 1-month-long sprints are going to entail. So far we have worked in a more waterfall approach with a high-level of interrupts, taking on projects, doing an upfront analysis to break work into small chunks and piping such chunks through FogBugz to track progress. Recently the team has been reading about kanban as a way to formalize flow and make under-capacity visible. While I believe we have adopted an informal pull-driven process, now is the time to formalize all this so as to properly communicate whether and when infrastructure projects can be delivered.

The first round of experiments is taking shape, more to follow shortly: Kanban day 1


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