Adaptiveand HybridScheduling
Cynthia Snyder Dionisio · 2022
This chapter looks at release and iteration planning to provide a high-level plan for creating and delivering value. It explains how task boards track the detailed work. The chapter describes a few ways project management professionals can blend predictive and adaptive scheduling for a hybrid project. There are three types of adaptive work: incremental, iterative, and Agile. A release plan starts with the project or product roadmap. When an iteration begins, the work for the iteration is posted on a task board. Hybrid scheduling is a blend of predictive methods and adaptive methods to create an integrated master schedule. New product development projects often use an adaptive approach to identify and develop the features and functions for the product. One of the ways hybrid projects get into trouble is balancing the structure needed for a predictive schedule with the evolving nature of adaptive scope.