{"id":7473,"date":"2022-02-24T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmcls.com\/360\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:18:20","slug":"adopting-hybrid-agile-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmcls.com\/learn\/blog\/adopting-hybrid-agile-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Adopting a Hybrid Agile Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are curious about hybrid agile, it may be helpful to examine a few instances where you might want to consider a hybrid approach. The first is hybrid agile as a stepping stone to true agile. The second is hybrid agile in environments that demand additional rigor or controls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Hybrid Agile Approach<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#hybrid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hybrid &#8211; A Stepping Stone to Agile<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#environments\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environments Requiring Additional Rigor or Controls<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#reason\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Reason for Hybrid Agile<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"hybrid\">Hybrid &#8211; A Stepping Stone to Agile<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making the shift from a traditional waterfall approach to agile can be a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rmcls.com\/introducing-agile-common-pitfalls-to-avoid\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">large adjustment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for some organizations. One school of thought is to just commit to it.\u00a0 Adopt agile approaches whole scale and abandon your old way of working in a burn-the-boats style of never going back. This is simple to explain and easier to achieve when there is top down support for the adoption of agile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, when the desire to adopt agile is bottom-up or department based it may not be possible to fully abandon the old way of working. Some interface points to other departments might need to be maintained. Also, reporting or governance frameworks outside our sphere of influence may still be needed. In these cases, a Hybrid Agile or \u201cAgile + Traditional Stuff\u201d might be required.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many organizations have been successful in adopting agile approaches in an iterative and incremental fashion. In fact, Kanban suggests \u201cstart with what you do now.&#8221;\u00a0 Then, \u201cagree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change\u201d that \u201crespects the current process, roles, responsibilities &amp; titles\u201d. Begin by using the core properties of Kanban.\u00a0 This includes visualizing the workflow, limiting the work in progress, managing flow and improving collaboratively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using this approach, during the transition period from traditional methods to Kanban or agile methods, organizations use a hybrid approach as a stepping stone to their end state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"environments\">Environments Requiring Additional Rigor or Controls<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rmcls.com\/agile-in-highly-regulated-environments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highly regulated environments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0like pharmaceutical or aerospace demand additional rigor and validation before allowing products to market. This is a good thing, it reduces the likelihood of shoddy or poorly tested services causing injury or death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These safety critical projects typically need to demonstrate traceability from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rmcls.com\/agile-requirements-dance-details\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">requirements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through completed designs and then successful testing. The idea being this audit trail of documentation helps ensure due diligence and proper care has been taken in the design, build and testing portions of the lifecycle to assure quality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By default, Agile approaches take a lightweight approach towards documentation. They prefer face-to-face communication where possible over documentation.\u00a0 This approach gets questions answered quicker and conveys more information such as enthusiasm, confusion or conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When describing documentation on agile projects, the maxim \u201cjust enough, just in time, and sometimes just because\u201d is sometimes used. It summarizes the guidelines to employ the minimum amount of documentation, when required (to avoid waste due to changes).\u00a0 In fact, sometimes it is easier to provide the documentation than argue about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The challenge for safety critical projects is that \u201cjust enough\u201d can be a heck of a lot. Plus, once produced, we cannot continue changing things and enhancing the solution because that would trigger a new round of testing and documentation. So, to avoid these issues, teams in safety critical environments often wrap the core agile development process in a more traditional wrapper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The start and end points of their projects are traditional. It provides the rigorous vendor selection, planning activities and the documentation needed for acceptance and approval for use. However, in the middle they use agile approaches to iterate quickly on building their product or service. It provides the benefits of early feedback, risk reduction and learning as they go. During execution they also wrap the process with additional governance and supporting activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an example of hybrid agile in the form of encapsulation. The agile component is encapsulated in a wrapper of more traditional operation. 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