When is hybrid project management the best choice?
Hybrid project management offers solutions that cover the entire spectrum from project work to project controlling, demand and budget management.
For this purpose, Can Do's hybrid project management tools integrate the very frequently used agile tool JIRA. This
- increases the effectiveness of agile working
- facilitates the implementation of projects in line with
budgets and deadlines and
- provides the necessary transparency of classical project
planning.
So that´s the reason for hybrid project management.
What methods and approaches does hybrid project management use?
Often, agile project management approaches alone are not sufficient to enable forward-looking planning of projects and resources in the company. For this reason, classic and agile approaches are combined and can be mapped with hybrid project management software such as Can Do.
What is the difference between the classic and the agile approach?
The classic project management landscape usually consists of
- a head of project,
- a project manager,
- various team leaders and
- other members of project staff
Once projects and tasks have been prioritized, resources are planned. A Gantt chart is often used for detailed planning. This provides project managers in classic project planning with detailed reports, for example on milestones, completion or costs.
In contrast, agile working methods provide the best conditions, especially for software development and other complex environments.
A team is put together that works continuously on versions of a software while it is already being used by users. The team members are familiar with the subject matter and prioritize the work steps individually.
Agile teams often have:
- a product owner,
- a scrum master and
- various team members.
The teams are largely self-organized and estimate expenditure from their own experience. This is done roughly at the beginning and is refined over the course of the project.
Regular sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives are just as obligatory as daily meetings about the progress of each sprint. Work is carried out according to the specifications of the backlog. However, even with agile teams, resource planning is necessary, as no one is available to carry out project tasks throughout the day due to absences due to illness, holidays, further training, etc.
What is missing in agile working methods is an overview of the entire project landscape. Here our software for hybrid project management Can Do offers a good solution by combining the two worlds of classic and agile working methods.
Why is the integration of the agile tool JIRA in the Can-Do software important for hybrid project management?
Many companies with hybrid working methods already use the agile tool JIRA in classical project planning.
There is therefore a parallel world that initially appears to be non-transparent in both directions. This circumstance complicates the successful planning and realization of projects and resources in time and budget.
At the same time, it is clear that agile working methods can release creative potential and produce something new. They are therefore very popular with development teams.
The perspective of the JIRA team: Nothing can be created without chaos
Are you a developer and do you work agile with your colleagues?
An outwardly seemingly unstructured approach gives you room for creative work in manageable planning stages and gives you the greatest possible flexibility to implement your tasks.
There is a lot of potential in this method, because Albert Einstein already said: "Nothing can be created without chaos".
The perspective of the project manager: Nothing can exist without order
You are a project manager? Do you see that the number of projects you manage is constantly increasing and that rescheduling is part of the daily routine?
You have to fulfill a large part of your planning duties under difficult conditions, because you don't know who is working on what for how long in agile projects and you can only plan your resources in an estimated way.
However, you should make binding statements to the customer about the progress of the project and the expected completion date.
You are also responsible for the use of the planned budget and staff. Since many parameters regarding the use of resources are in the dark, this is simply not possible. Einstein also put this in a nutshell: "Nothing can exist without order".
Can Do integrates JIRA and creates a win-win situation for JIRA teams and project managers
While development departments swear by agile methods such as Scrum, these approaches represent a major blind spot in planning for project and portfolio managers:
As project manager you often do not know if and when the agile teams will implement the work (work packages or stories) for your project. Furthermore, capacity planning does not occur in agile methods, which makes the company-wide resource management of the portfolio manager difficult.
This makes hybrid project management necessary, because the information deficit can only be compensated by a high coordination and communication effort of hybrid project management. This is where we offer tools such as Can Do for hybrid project management and thus create real added value.
