Agile vs Waterfall debates are continued with an interesting outcome. Some project management gurus believe that such debates don’t make sense as there is no such a thing as Agile and Waterfall projects, as all projects are Hybrid. However, if all projects are Hybrid, there is no such thing as Hybrid projects either.
I share their opinion, but in my posts, it is not easy to avoid using Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid terms, especially when we discuss project myths.
I think the root cause of the challenge is in applied project management language. There are formal and informal project delivery terms:
Adaptive approaches use iterative and incremental approaches. Predictive and Adaptive are equivalent to Waterfall and Agile, but no word describes Hybrid.
I thought about what this word could be and came to the idea of combining already existing terms. Playing with different combinations and creating many interesting words, I found one word that is easy to understand and pronounce:
Predaptive – project delivery regardless of applied delivery approach.
Alex Lyaschenko
PMO | Portfolio Planning & Delivery | PMP | P3O Practitioner | AgilePM Practitioner | Six Sigma
