Hybrid Project Management

Hybrid Project Management

A how-to guide for leaders of hybrid projects that covers technical and leadership principles across the project delivery spectrum.

Hybrid Project Management offers practical guidance for combining waterfall and adaptive (Agile) project management approaches. This helpful guide includes advice on when to use each approach and how various methods can be combined and customized to meet the needs of projects and stakeholders. A sample case study demonstrates how to apply the concepts described throughout the text.

An exciting new title from bestselling author Cyndi Snyder Dionisio on a top trending topic in the field, sample topics covered in Hybrid Project Management include:

• Variables to consider when choosing a development approach
• Project roles such as sponsors, product owners, project managers, scrum masters, and the project team
• Launching a hybrid project (vision statements and charters) and structuring the project (development approach, delivery cadence, lifecycle, and roadmap)
• Project scope requirements, backlogs, and user stories
• Hybrid scheduling that combines Gantt charts and release plans
• Leadership in a hybrid project, covering servant leadership, bias, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, motivation, and developing high-performing teams
• Managing risk on hybrid projects including estimating reserve and using a risk-adjusted backlog
• Identifying metrics and reports for predictive and adaptive project work, such as burn charts, variance analysis, forecasts, and cumulative flow diagrams

With over fifty percent of projects today being managed using a hybrid approach, Hybrid Project Management serves as an important guide to hybrid project management methods for project management professionals and academia. It is an invaluable resource for understanding the approach and effectively implementing it for better outcomes.

Auteur

CYNTHIA SNYDER DIONISIO, PMP, MBA is a well-known consultant with over 25 years of experience in project management. She has authored a dozen books related to project management. She is the Project, Program and Portfolio Management Lead at the International Institute for Learning.

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Hybrid Project Management A how-to guide for leaders of hybrid projects that covers technical and leadership principles across the project delivery spectrum. Hybrid Project Management offers practical guidance for combining waterfall and adaptive (Agile) project management approaches. This helpful guide includes advice on when to use each approach and how various methods can be combined and customized to meet the needs of projects and stakeholders. A sample case study demonstrates how to apply the concepts described throughout the text. An exciting new title from bestselling author Cyndi Snyder Dionisio on a top trending topic in the field, sample topics covered in Hybrid Project Management include: Variables to consider when choosing a development approach Project roles such as sponsors, product owners, project managers, scrum masters, and the project team Launching a hybrid project (vision statements and charters) and structuring the project (development approach, delivery cadence, lifecycle, and roadmap) Project scope requirements, backlogs, and user stories Hybrid scheduling that combines Gantt charts and release plans Leadership in a hybrid project, covering servant leadership, bias, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, motivation, and developing high-performing teams Managing risk on hybrid projects including estimating reserve and using a risk-adjusted backlog Identifying metrics and reports for predictive and adaptive project work, such as burn charts, variance analysis, forecasts, and cumulative flow diagrams With over fifty percent of projects today being managed using a hybrid approach, Hybrid Project Management serves as an important guide to hybrid project management methods for project management professionals and academia. It is an invaluable resource for understanding the approach and effectively implementing it for better outcomes.

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Acknowledgmentsxii

Introduction xiii

1 Introducing Project Management 1

The Spectrum of Development Approaches 2

Waterfall 3

Iterative 4

Incremental 6

Agile 8

Hybrid Project Management and Development Approaches 9

Summary 11

Key Terms 11

2 Choosing a Development Approach 12

Product Variables 12

Innovation 13

Scope Stability 13

Requirements Certainty 14

Ease of Change 14

Risk 15

Criticality 15

Safety 16

Regulatory 16

Project Variables 16

Stakeholders 17

Delivery Options 17

Funding Availability 18

Organization Variables 18

Structure 18

Culture 19

Project Team 19

Experience and Commitment 20

Development Approach Evaluation Tool 21

Product Variables 21

Project Variables 22

Organizational Variables 23

Creating a Visual Display of The Variables 24

Summary 25

Key Terms 25

3 Project Roles 26

Project Sponsor 26

Initiating Projects 27

Up- Front Planning 27

Monitoring Progress 28

Supporting the Project Manager 28

Project Manager 29

Leadership Skills 29

Management Skills 30

Product Owner 31

Product Functions 31

People Activities 32

Scrum Master 32

Facilitation 32

Support 33

The Team 33

Generalizing Specialists 34

Hybrid Options 35

Summary 36

Key Terms 36

4 Launching a Hybrid Project 37

Vision Statements 38

Organizations' Vision Statements 38

Project Vision Statements 39

Project Charter 40

Case Study 42

Background 42

Case Study Vision Statement 42

Case Study Charter 43

Assumptions and Constraints 46

Summary 47

Key Terms 47

5 Hybrid Project Planning and Structure 48

Planning Fundamentals 49

Progressive Elaboration and Rolling Wave Planning 49

Competing Demands 50

The Project Management Plan 51

Subsidiary Plans 51

Tailoring the Project Management Plan for Hybrid Projects 53

Project Life Cycles 54

Key Reviews 57

Project Management Plan for a Hybrid Project 58

Development Approach 58

Life Cycle 60

Subsidiary Plans 62

Key Reviews 63

Roadmap 63

Summary 64

Key Terms 65

6 Defining Scope in Hybrid Projects 66

Planning for Scope with a Scope Management Plan 66

Elaborating Scope with a Scope Statement 69

Narrative Description 69

Deliverables 70

Out of Scope 72

Organizing Scope with a Work Breakdown Structure 72

WBS Levels 72

Work Packages, Planning Packages, and Control Accounts 74

Steps to Create a WBS 76

Getting into the Detail with A WBS Dictionary 76

Working with Requirements 76

Elicitation 78

Prioritization 79

Documenting Requirements 81

Prioritizing Scope with a Backlog 83

Summary 84

Key Terms 84

7 Building a Predictive Schedule 85

Organizing with a Schedule Management Plan 85

Predictive Scheduling 88

Identify Tasks 88

Sequence Tasks 89

Assign Team Members 92

Estimate Durations 97

Summary 98

Key Terms 98

8 Analyzing and Finalizing a Predictive Schedule 100

Analyzing the Schedule 100

Convergence and Divergence 101

Resource Allocation 102

The Critical Path 104

Float 104

Finalizing the Schedule 106

Schedule Compression 106

Schedule Buffer 108

Baselining the Schedule 109

Summary 110

Key Terms 110

9 Adaptive and Hybrid Scheduling 111

Adaptive Scheduling 111

Release Planning 112

Task Boards 114

Hybrid Scheduling 115

Predictive with Releases and Iterations 115

Predictive with Iterations Inserted 116

Adaptive then Predictive 116

Dependencies in Hybrid Schedules 116

Summary 117

Key Terms 118

10 Estimating 119

Estimating Ranges 119

Estimating Methods 120

Analogous Estimating 121

Parametric Estimating…