Using Agile Methods for Infrastructure Projects: A Practical Experience

Abstract

Agile approaches have emerged in Software Development projects during the last decade becoming a real alternative for organizations developing software. These approaches have been used successfully in several and different projects: from small teams of in-site developers to teams comprising hundreds of developers all over the world. Nevertheless, Agile approaches are not only suitable for Software Development projects, but these methodologies can also be considered to be a framework to plan, estimate and manage any kind of project s focused on quick-response, adaptation to customers’ needs and early delivery of value to costumers. This paper presents the result of an experience dealing with using an Agile framework, based on Scrum, in an infrastructure project applied to a Spanish Public Administration. According to the results of the project, the paper takes out the main lessons learned and proposes further lines of research.