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Agile and Waterfall Approach, does a hybrid methodology exist?

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Gbadeyan Timothy Project Director| Timglobal Technologies Ltd Lagos, Nigeria
Does a hybrid methodology exist? If yes , kindly state examples on how you applied this. If No , kindly explain further to support your reasons.
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Adrian Carlogea Australia
Sep 19, 2019 9:39 AM
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Our project is a hybrid because while the software development team used a Scrum approach, the rest of the teams used a more typical predictive approach. Add to that the fact that senior management wanted typical predictive outcome indicators: How much is done? When will you be done?

We delivered products to the general public and to the internal staff. We did a better job of involving the targeted public at each sprint, than we did with our internal staff.

Now that we are live, employees have become de jure testers. Employees struggle to keep up with the two-week sprint releases, being used to quarterly releases.
It depends on the organization but usually software in an enterprise environment is not being changed that often. For the whole organization yes there may be many software development projects running but usually once a software has been built and deployed changes don't come that often.

Scrum is only suitable if the changes are small and not very dependent on each other.

If you have a big functionality that translates in many User Stories there is no point on releasing small chunks as they would not be useful until everything is being developed.

Well usually some things can be missed and you can release even if you haven't done 100% of the work done but I have seen on some projects that it took more than a year of development before the team had anything useful to deliver. Scrum with 1 year sprints. :P
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