Project management and development management
Project management
As Figure 32 shows, HERMES distinguishes between traditional and hybrid project management.
This means solution development can take a traditional, agile, and (in special cases) also hybrid approach:
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Traditional product management supports traditional development management;
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Hybrid project management supports agile and hybrid development management. It is a combination of traditional project management and an agile development approach.
Agile development management
Agile development methods are not project management methods, but rather development management methods. Because projects under HERMES must fulfill certain framework conditions from the beginning, such as compliance with governance, smooth embedding of the project in the existing planning and controlling processes of the core organization (fundamental mission of HERMES), and common language/uniform terminology, pure agile development does not fulfill these requirements placed on HERMES. For that reason, the agile method is embedded in hybrid project management suitable for this purpose.
Figure 33 shows the hybrid part of the HERMES phase model with agile development management.
The understanding of roles in hybrid project management is based on both traditional project management and agile development methods. The project sponsor, including the project committee and the quality and risk manager at the steering hierarchy level, and the project management, including the technical committee and project support at the management hierarchy level, work in accordance with traditional project management; the development team at the execution hierarchy level works in accordance with agile techniques. The user representative assumes an additional interface function.
Hybrid development management
The development in the project, i.e. solution development, can be undertaken either with the traditional or with the agile approach. In practice, however, there are cases in which a project is undertaken with a combination of both approaches.
Because all method components are coordinated with each other, HERMES project management also supports this "hybrid" approach. However, this requires corresponding tailoring at the end of the initiation phase, given that the hybrid component must be adapted to the corresponding needs. Figure 34 shows two conceivable options under a hybrid development approach.
