Shawn Belling - Succeeding with Agile Hybrids: Project Delivery Using Hybrid Methodologies

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This book is a synthesis of my practical experience, education, and training as a practitioner and instructor in hybrid agile frameworks and practices. This book sources material from courses I have developed and taught, presentations I have developed, and articles I have written for various publications.

The intent of this book is to provide insights and ideas on the practical application of agile frameworks, practices, and techniques to successfully deliver projects using hybrid approaches which is what the majority of organizations attempting to implement agile end up practicing. It is not intended to provide a purist approach to any particular agile framework. This book sources and credits agile frameworks and their authors or notable trainers frequently while focusing on practical hybrid applications.

This book will discuss hybrid agile from a practical perspective, with examples from real-life scenarios and from the perspectives of key agile roles and behaviors. The book will provide the practitioner with patterns and examples to use in modeling their own understanding and implementation of agile practices and hopefully help make the journey a bit easier.

This book assumes that the reader has some familiarity and initial experience with agile project management practices as well as waterfall project management. A reader of this book may derive more benefit by being less versed in a particular flavor of agile and more open to the practical benefits of being methodology-agnostic and simply using and applying what could work in their own organizations and applications.

Thanks to David Antonioni, PhD, former program director at the University of Wisconsins Executive Education program in Project Management who gave me an opportunity to teach back in 2001. I am forever indebted to David for this first opportunity to teach at the University of Wisconsin.

Thanks goes to Scott Converse, program director of the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional and Executive Developments project management program, for his collaboration and support of course development and delivery of agile and scrum methodologies since 2011.

Thanks to D.W. (Bill) Haskins, program director for the Master of Science in Project Management program at the University of WisconsinPlatteville, for affording me the opportunity to teach in the master of science in project management program since 2008 and develop and teach the agile project management course since 2012.

Finally, I wish to acknowledge and thank the many trainers, coworkers, and students with whom I have had the privilege of learning from, working with, and teaching throughout my career. Learning is a lifelong process, and one through which we are always giving and receiving no matter what role one is in.