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Question answered in Quora - How can you apply agile methods to a platform migration project based o


Agile works very well when the following are true

1 - When the end result is not clearly known, where an iteration based methodology will help

2 - When all the team members are in the same location

3 - When the project is a product development project

4 - When the effort, the timeline and the resources required are not clearly established, because you don't know where you will end up, so the only way to get there is figuring out by doing iteration after iteration

Agile does not work, or rather Waterfall works well in the following scenarios

1 - When the end result is clearly known and all the steps in executing that project are clearly known, typically this is like an implementation project by a team of experienced consultants that have done this many times,

for example implementation of a WMS or an ERP or a CRM etc

2 - There is a clearly established timeline, the amount of work that needs to be done is clearly understood and also the amount of work has been estimated with the right number of resources and the timeline

So do not do agile because that is the latest buzz word, instead analyst both agile and waterfall methodologies and then use the approach that best fits your scenario


ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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