Shawn Belling

Succeeding with Agile Hybrids

Project Delivery Using Hybrid Methodologies

1st ed.
Shawn Belling
Fitchburg, WI, USA
ISBN 978-1-4842-6460-7e-ISBN 978-1-4842-6461-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6461-4
© Shawn Belling 2020
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This book is dedicated to my wife, Jody, with thanks and recognition for her warm encouragement and constant support of this and all of my endeavors.

A dedication also goes to the late Dr. Ginger Levin. Ginger was a teacher and mentor to me as well as an inspiration. Ginger set the bar high as a professor and an author. Thanks, Ginger.

Introduction

This book is a synthesis of my practical experience, education, and training as a practitioner and instructor in hybrid agile frameworks and practices. This book sources material from courses I have developed and taught, presentations I have developed, and articles I have written for various publications.

The intent of this book is to provide insights and ideas on the practical application of agile frameworks, practices, and techniques to successfully deliver projects using hybrid approaches – which is what the majority of organizations attempting to implement agile end up practicing. It is not intended to provide a purist approach to any particular agile framework. This book sources and credits agile frameworks and their authors or notable trainers frequently while focusing on practical hybrid applications.

This book will discuss hybrid agile from a practical perspective, with examples from real-life scenarios and from the perspectives of key agile roles and behaviors. The book will provide the practitioner with patterns and examples to use in modeling their own understanding and implementation of agile practices and hopefully help make the journey a bit easier.

This book assumes that the reader has some familiarity and initial experience with agile project management practices as well as waterfall project management. A reader of this book may derive more benefit by being less versed in a particular flavor of agile and more open to the practical benefits of being methodology-agnostic and simply using and applying what could work in their own organizations and applications.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to David Antonioni, PhD, former program director at the University of Wisconsin’s Executive Education program in Project Management who gave me an opportunity to teach back in 2001. I am forever indebted to David for this first opportunity to teach at the University of Wisconsin.

Thanks goes to Scott Converse, program director of the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional and Executive Development’s project management program, for his collaboration and support of course development and delivery of agile and scrum methodologies since 2011.

Thanks to D.W. (Bill) Haskins, program director for the Master of Science in Project Management program at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, for affording me the opportunity to teach in the master of science in project management program since 2008 and develop and teach the agile project management course since 2012.

Finally, I wish to acknowledge and thank the many trainers, coworkers, and students with whom I have had the privilege of learning from, working with, and teaching throughout my career. Learning is a lifelong process, and one through which we are always giving and receiving no matter what role one is in.

About the Author
Shawn Belling
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is a globally experienced technology executive and project management speaker and instructor. In a career spanning 30 years, he has held executive and leadership roles in higher education, software, consulting, biopharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance and is currently the chief information officer at a large regional technical college.

As a member of the Project Management Institute, he has spoken regularly at conferences and seminars since 2008, which include multiple presentations at PMI Global Conferences in the United States and APAC.

Shawn teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Engineering Professional Development and the Center for Executive and Professional Development, at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in the Master of Science Project Management program, and at the University of Southern California in the Master of Science Project Management program.

Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner, is a Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner, and is certified in Organizational Change Leadership from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville.

Shawn earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin schools and is completing a doctorate in leadership.

 
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