Description:
The objective of this course is to throw some light on how organizations that develop technology-based products and services apply hybrid approaches to project management, their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. Compared to a few decades ago, companies today are faced with highly volatile and challenging environment while providing successful products and services to their customers. Global competition, rapid change in technologies, and highly volatile economic conditions are forcing project professionals to innovate new methodologies to manage projects so as to deliver greater value to customers in this difficult landscape.
The most important project management methodology today that will help us deal with this change and this volatility is Agile. However, no one process or project management methodology fits all situations. Agile is not a panacea for all projects. Many times, our projects are large enough and complex enough that some parts of the project are best suited to using a predictive planning approach, and other parts are more suited to using Agile. Therefore, a hybrid approach that mixes the traditional, waterfall approach with Agile is really required in many situations today. The agile community oftentimes has quite a negative view of hybrid approaches. Key writers on Agile often say that attempting to use hybrid will corrupt all attempts to use Agile, and will result in failure. In this course, we discuss how integrating these methodologies can be done if approached the right way, and in fact, this is a necessity today.
Further, in this course we also discuss a few tried and tested hybrid models giving industry examples.
Learning Objectives:
This course is a part of our project management program, which was added to educate the professionals on this new approach. The course follows, PMBOK Guide, Agile Practice Guide, Modern Project by Mark Tolbert, Susan Parente, and various white papers published in the recent past.
Course Hours: 42 Hours (PMI PDUs: 42)