Hybrid Project Management

5Hybrid Project Planning and Structure

Hybrid projects require up‐front thought and planning to structure them appropriately. By structure I mean determining the development approach you will use for each deliverable, the life cycle phases, and how you will integrate adaptive and predictive approaches in your project. You will also need to consider which elements should be in your project management plan and how detailed they need to be. Deliverables usually have various reviews and sign‐offs. You can record this information plus milestones and key delivery dates in a project roadmap.

In this chapter we will cover fundamental concepts in project planning. These concepts apply throughout the project, regardless of the development approach you are using. We will review common elements in a project management plan and discuss how to tailor them. Then we we'll describe a project life cycle and project phases. We'll demonstrate these concepts by showing how this information would be applied to the Dionysus Winery project. Last, we'll introduce a project roadmap and show how it provides a high‐level structure for the project.

PLANNING FUNDAMENTALS

There are two fundamental truths in project management:

1. You can't know everything at the start; and
2. You have to balance competing demands.

We'll start by looking at a planning technique that accounts for the uncertain nature of projects.

Progressive Elaboration and Rolling Wave Planning

Once you have a project vision statement and/or ...