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Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid? with Brett Harned artwork

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Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid? with Brett Harned

Nathan Gilmore and John Correlli are joined by Brett Harned to compare agile, waterfall and hybrid ways of running projects and to ask who really works 100 percent agile. John describes TeamGantt's own hybrid: a quarterly Gantt-chart roadmap that feeds a two-week sprint backlog, and Brett shares a large university redesign that had to stretch sprints around stakeholder committees.

Key takeaways

  • Pure agile needs a dedicated team, a tolerance for change and buy-in from the top; most agencies and stakeholder-heavy teams end up hybrid.
  • Waterfall suits work with known steps and a fixed deadline (construction, a webinar launch); agile suits unknown solutions that need iteration.
  • TeamGantt uses a Gantt chart as the quarterly roadmap and pulls sprint work from it, re-planning as they learn.
  • Executives who want a timeline can be shown sprints as groups on a Gantt chart so the plan is visible without abandoning iteration.
  • Learn the methods, then adapt the process to what works for your team; revisit it as the team grows.

About this episode

Nathan, and John are joined by good friend and digital project manager extraordinaire Brett Harned to talk about PM Methodologies and which ones you should think about for your projects.