From left to right: Agile, ITIL, and Open Source: An (un)holy trinity?
So I’ve hopefully started what will become a multi-part series about integrating Agile, Open Source, and ITIL into an overall strategy for delivering web services. You can find the first part on my personal web site. WARNING: The first post is simply a high, very high, overview of the three methodologies, so you may find nothing new in there. Indeed, here’s a snippet speaking to that very fact:
First, an admission: Open Source, Agile, and ITIL are nothing new to the realm of IT; all have been around for years, if not decades, and many industries have embraced them in some form or another. So the fact we are now incorporating these practices into our work might not seem exactly novel and, if I was strictly speaking about incorporating just the individual practices into our work, such an assertion would be correct. But I’m talking about merging all three, and a quick Google Search on “implementing,” “incorporating,” “combining” or “merging” this trinity doesn’t exactly return a cornucopia of results. So maybe what were doing is somewhat novel, after all.