What is Hybrid Project Management?
Hybrid project management is a flexible project management methodology that combines the benefits of both Waterfall and Agile. It leverages the long-term, predictive planning of Waterfall while using short-term, iterative cycles of Agile. It blends structure with speed to bring out the best of both worlds and deliver successful projects.
Why should your business adopt a Hybrid Project Management Tool?
Agile budgeting and forecasting
Large organizations have many moving parts, which makes it difficult for teams to adapt quickly to meet customer and market demands. Agile project management budgets help project managers track planned expenses versus actual costs, visualize forecasts, and get a breakdown of all the costs associated with their projects.
Orchestrate your release pipelines
Scaling efficiently can be a huge challenge in large organizations, but our drag and drop task automation builder helps teams map their processes to a blueprint. From backlog management to source code management, teams can use our integration to orchestrate their workflows with the click of a button.
Reduce disintegration and promote collaboration
With our hybrid Projects + Sprints integration, teams don't have to worry about broken links. From estimation points to dependencies, the details of your projects are synced in real-time across the different platforms, providing the context cross-functional teams need to collaborate.
Get actionable insights
Want to know which projects are on schedule or how your sprints are progressing? Portfolio managers can zoom out to get a big-picture portfolio view of the progress of their projects. Agile teams can zoom in to get actionable insights like velocity charts, burnup and burndown reports, cumulative flow diagrams, and more.
Improve continuously
Successful teams constantly improve the way they work to deliver high-quality work. Use our status timeline to help increase transparency and identify bottlenecks by visualizing ownership and calculating the amount of time a work item spends in each status.
Make your projects your own
Add a personal touch to your hybrid project management experience by mapping it to your business domain and configuring your business hours and holidays.
Handy integrations
Here are a few integrations that further increase Zoho Projects' capabilities and functionality:
That's not all. Connect with other applications or easily build your own extensions with our Marketplace.
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Get the best of both worlds with a powerful hybrid project management tool
Frequently Asked Questions
Hybrid methodology in project management is an approach that combines Waterfall's structured, sequential planning with Agile's iterative and flexible execution. It allows teams to make predictable plans while adapting to changes along the product development process.
Hybrid project management is best used for projects with fixed timelines or budgets but also need the flexibility approach to tackle evolving environments or recurring stakeholder feedback.
Agile and Waterfall can be combined by using the upfront planning, milestones and defined scope of Waterfall while using Agile for iterative development, testing, and continuous improvement.
Hybrid project management tools support both Agile and Waterfall workflows under the same platform. For example, they will be equipped with features like Gantt charts for effective long-term planning and Scrum or Kanban boards for iterative execution.
Many modern project management platforms support hybrid methodologies. Zoho's project management suite consists of Zoho Projects and Zoho Sprints, that take care of Waterfall and Agile approaches respectively. They can seamlessly sync with each other for a hybrid approach.
Yes, Agile and Waterfall work well together when roles, processes and expectations are defined clearly. This allows teams to balance structure, flexibility and governance across complicated projects.
Key features to look out for in a hybrid project management software include support for both Agile and Waterfall workflows, flexible planning tools, Kanban and Scrum boards, reports and dashboards, collaboration suites, and integration capabilities.