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Agile Methods in System Administration?
sta asks: "Agile methodologies focusing on development techniques and approaches abound, many of which at the very least give food for thought. I have been in constant discussion with our dev manager about agile approaches and their extension to the systems administration world. Can agile methods and the agile mind set be applied to the systems administration world? Does systems administration rely on policy and procedure for it's integrity and reliability or is that just an ingrained habit? There appear to be a number of administrative tools that claim agility but are there any established agile methodologies?"
Geekness has put food on my table for 20+ years but I have no idea what the submitter was asking and Babelfish isn't helping.
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I think agility is very important. Yesterday, I was using typing on the computer to repair damage done to our system by one of our clueless lusers (Bob) while simultaneously delivering a series of side kicks and back kicks to his abdomen to make sure he understood the gravity of his mistake. This involves both balance and agility. Lucy walked in on us and was about to cry for help when I immediately executing a beautiful spinning roundhouse kick to her temple. Again, fast reaction times and the ability to rapidly change direction and momentum -- agility -- saved the day. In the meantime, Bob was able to gasp a breath of air and was about to run away. Seeing Lucy drop to the ground, I whipped around a delievered a picture-perfect forearm smash right into Bob's teeth! Knocked him out cold. I continued typing on the computer, repairing the mess while simultaneously flicking the door to my office closed with my foot to conceal the physical mess.
Agility is the key to sanity as a sysadmin, my friends. If you can't multitask like that, you're gonna have a tough life. They don't teach you this shit in school.
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