- Agile Project Management for Data Centers -

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Montri Wiboonrat

Abstract

Data center is ultimately IT complex ecosystems, and the complex systems can quickly become
unmanageable subject to time, cost, and quality or performance called Iron Triangle. The traditional
project management (TPM) is based on a predictable, fixed, relatively simple, and certain model but
project change is natural phenomenon. It is dissociated from change in the IT environment and business
needs of project life cycle (PLC). Scrum is the leading agile development methodology, used
wildly with adaptive change requirements and complex systems by managing and breaking project into
several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement
and iteration all every stages. The Scrum methodology proposes the way of transforming of project
team to tackle the complex and dynamic projects by bringing the agile project management (APM) approach
beyond the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) to the real world of data center
project management (DCPM).

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