Hybrid Project Management: Do What Works
1h 12mIntermediate2021-06-10
Authors

Cyndi Snyder Dionisio
Author, Consultant, and Project Management Expert
Course details
The field of project management is evolving rapidly. Successful project managers know how to leverage predictive approaches, such as waterfall, as well as more adaptive, agile ways of working. But how can you combine those methods to bring a hybrid project to the finish line? In this course, instructor Cyndi Snyder Dionisio shows you how. Cyndi defines hybrid project management and shows how to use methods from different project delivery approaches to start up a project, organize and prioritize scope, develop estimates and schedule work, collaborate with the team and other stakeholders, and apply effective measures to reflect the project status. After completing this course, you'll be equipped with a variety of strategies that can help you confidently tackle projects with either a well-defined or evolving scope.
Skills covered
Project Management SkillsFoundationsProject Management
Concepts
Introduction
- Project management is evolving
- What is hybrid project management
The Value Delivery Spectrum
- Different ways to deliver value
- Tailoring the value delivery approach for hybrid projects
Starting a Hybrid Project
- Vision statements and project charters for hybrid projects
- Determining a hybrid project life cycle
- Creating a hybrid project roadmap
Defining and Elaborating Scope for a Hybrid Project
- Organizing scope on a hybrid project with a WBS
- Organizing scope on a hybrid project with a backlog and user stories
Scheduling in a Hybrid Environment
- Scheduling with a network diagram for a hybrid project
- Scheduling a hybrid project with a Gantt chart
- Planning iterations and releases on a hybrid project
- Kanban and flow-based scheduling on a hybrid project
Estimating a Hybrid Project
- Relative estimating for hybrid projects
- Wideband Delphi and Fibonacci estimating techniques
- Analogous and parametric estimating
- Multi-point estimating in hybrid projects
Working with a Hybrid Project Team
- Project roles and responsibilities in Hybrid projects
- Meetings in hybrid projects
Hybrid Measures and Metrics
- Predictive schedule measures
- Predictive cost measures
- Adaptive efficiency measures
Conclusion
- Strategies for applying hybrid approaches to your projects