Over the past several months, I networked with companies who had implemented Agile (primarily smaller ones) and asked them what some of their Agile challenges were.  Interestingly enough I heard from several companies saying that getting their infrastructure set up was a challenge while trying to get Agile going since Agile had instant demands on the infrastructure.  I immediately had a flashback. In 1998, I had a similar experience when implementing Scrum. The ScrumMaster had the developers coding in the first sprint (as is expected). However there was no real infrastructure or CM system to speak of and what was there was clunky at best.  Coding was quite the mess and after the first release came out, the next release had a lot of regression.  This all revolved around the lack of focus on infrastructure. Interestingly enough, even after 10 years, the infrastructure challenges persist.

Originally published at the Agile Journal. Read the rest of the article here.

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