Hybrid-Agile projects are different – in fact quite different from the traditional waterfall ones or the Agile ones. It combines both waterfall and Agile, but your thought process, mindset and application will be different.
In fact, going further, I'd say that your mindset and thought process must be different as you manage both traditional and agile parts together in a single project. It's not easy and hence, there is a dedicated certification (CHAMP) for it. See here.
Below are some common mistakes to avoid when tracking Hybrid-Agile projects. In addition, avoidance such mistakes or pitfalls can give you right data and hence reports.
Pitfall – 1: Not Setting the Status Date.
While tracking, setting a status date is a must. Many forget to do it, and I’ve seen it repeatedly. In the CHAMP certification course, I’ve emphasized it frequently.
It takes a matter of seconds to set the status or data date, and that makes tracking systematic.
Pitfall – 2: Not differentiating Traditional and Agile Tasks.
As you proceed with a Hybrid-Agile project, you are likely to have thousands of tasks to be managed by a number of resources—human, physical, asset, material, among others.
It’s always good practice to clearly differentiate and segregate such tasks. Later on, when you manage and report, it’ll prove to be immensely valuable.
Pitfall – 3: Not using the Planning Boards.
If you’re using Scrum to follow Agile in Hybrid-Agile projects, there will definitely be a Sprint Planning Board. If the software tool doesn’t provide it, then don’t use that tool.
Now, when you don’t use the Sprint Planning Board(s) but directly update the tasks in the Gantt Chart view, you’ll face a number of problems. For example, you won’t get the data properly updated, including the Board Status!
Note:For Hybrid-Kanban, the creation, usage, and management of boards will be different.
Pitfall – 4: Not Customizing the Board States.
This is another mistake you must avoid. If you have five workflow states, then use five boards. If you have three, then use three boards. Use them, but don’t overcomplicate it.
Boards have other uses, such as linking states with % Complete values, reporting, and of course, clear visualization.
Pitfall – 5: Not Using the Visual Indicators and Bars.
Visual indicators and bars are given for your benefit. A large number of visual indicators and bars should be available while tracking. MS Project Agile, which is specifically used in CHAMP, has a large number of them. Other software tools such as Primavera P6 also provide them, though P6 doesn’t support Agile.
When you have visual indicators, bars, and boards, use them abundantly.
Pitfall – 6: Not Baselining the Hybrid Project.
Baselining is needed for traditional project management. Without baselining, there is no mathematical way to know the progress. And nobody can really dispute pure mathematics.
However, for the Agile part, you may not need baselining, except when mandated.
Do note that the baselining part is quite tricky. It becomes trickier when multiple baselines are involved. You’ve to be very careful in this regard.
Pitfall – 7: Not Tracking Variances for Traditional Parts.
Variance tracking and analysis are part and parcel of Waterfall projects. You’ve to do it and also do the reporting. This is linked to baselining, which has to be clearly and consciously done.
Agile elements with iterations, however, need not have variance tracking, except where customer or regulatory requirements mandate it.
Pitfall – 8: Not Having the Right Team Structure.
One of the key ingredients of a project’s delivery success is the team structure. The team structure should be clear with little hierarchy. And you must keep in mind the way delivery happens in traditional and Agile approaches.
Pitfall – 9: Not Following the Principles of Hybrid-Agile Management.
Principles are very important to be followed in any approach. The CHAMP course informs this explicitly. In fact, I’ve published two articles in this regard. You can read them here and here.
Pitfall – 10: Not Using a Combined View.
A combined view consisting of both the traditional and Agile parts is a powerful one. But many don’t know how to use it! This view gives a snapshot of the entire project in a quick time. Of course, it requires proficiency to track in such ways.
The CHAMP certification (see here) uses these views frequently and demonstrates them with a large number of practical exercises with solution files, so that you can master them.
The Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional (CHAMP) courseis highly practical as informed and written by many successful CHAMPs. It's also highly economical. As a matter of fact, it's world's only Practical Hybrid-Agile certification, where you learn hybrid-agile management with your own hands.
The below unique trailer (1m: 14s) informs more. For the best experience, go full-screen HD mode and plug-in your headphones.
A brief tabular differentiation between CHAMP and other certifications is shown below.
To know more about the CHAMP certification course, see here.
To have the complete course breakdown, check here.
For this course, many FAQs have been answered. See here.
The phrase "shades of grey" usually refers to situations that are not just black or white, right or wrong, left or right. Instead, they exist somewhere in between, where clarity is fuzzy, ambiguity is dominant, and absolutes don't really apply.
Hybrid is one such area. The predictive model of development relies on heavy upfront planning. In some cases, it's absolutely needed. At the other end of the development spectrum, we have adaptive, where there is very little detailed planning. The planning is mostly just-in-time (JIT) and usually happens before the iteration (as in Scrum) or when capacity is available (as in Kanban).
Hybrid development sits in between: between predictive and adaptive. It takes elements of both and delivers.
Understanding this need, the CHAMP certification has been specifically developed when Hybrid-Agile (or simply Hybrid) works best. CHAMP certification is all about hybrid. This certification is valuable because:
It blends rigid and flexible: Traditional Waterfall (predictive) is structured and sequential, while Agile (adaptive) is iterative and incremental. Hybrid-Agile? It weaves together the two. Hence, the term grey.
It's tailored, not textbook: With CHAMP and hence Hybrid-Agile, the project team doesn't follow the book. Rather, the team builds its own strategy based on the project's needs. The decision-making is in the grey zone, where trade-offs are not optional but essential.
It's highly practical with needed theory: The CHAMP certification is the world's only practical Hybrid-Agile certification. It’s also highly economical. See here.
Now, let's see the various Shades of Grey for Hybrid-Agile, as used in the CHAMP certification. Though there are many, I've highlighted a few.
Shade of Grey # 1: Hybrid-Scrum
In the hybrid world, Hybrid-Scrum is not just about stand-ups and retrospectives. It's not about upfront planning, either. It’s about embedding agility (Scrum) into a predictive framework — or predictive elements into an otherwise Agile project.
The CHAMP course teaches how to conduct Sprint Planning alongside Gantt charts; how to align features (or user stories) with a WBS; and how to hold Daily Scrums alongside routine meetings.
Shade of Grey # 2: Hybrid-Kanban
Scrum thrives on Sprints. Kanban thrives on flow. Hybrid-Kanban brings not only the flow, but also visualization with Kanban Boards, identification of work-in-progress (WIP) items, reporting with Cumulative Flow Diagrams, among other tools.
CHAMP doesn't just teach you Hybrid-Kanban management — it teaches you how to work with any type of Hybrid-Kanban project. Like Hybrid-Scrum, real-world projects are used here as well.
Shade of Grey # 3: Hybrid-ScrumBan
This is greyer than the greys! ScrumBan combines both Scrum and Kanban. Hence the name. Hybrid-ScrumBan goes a step further by blending Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban.
As you progress through the CHAMP certification course, the Hybrid-ScrumBan approach becomes a powerful tool in your strategic toolkit. But how?
As a CHAMP, you learn when to iterate and when to go with flow. In other words, Sprints where needed, flow where it's a must. And once again, you'll master this through real-world, scenario-driven projects.
Shade of Grey # 4: Baselining Hybrid-Projects
Ask any professional, including management, and they’ll know the value of a baseline in a project. In predictive projects, baselining is essential to track progress, identify variances, perform variance analysis, and generate subsequent reports.
In Hybrid-Agile, baselining can still be applied because it includes predictive elements. But how do we apply baselines to the Agile parts? Sometimes, that’s necessary too — especially when regulatory requirements demand it. CHAMP teaches you exactly how to do that.
Shade of Grey # 5: Tracking Hybrid-Projects
Tracking is indispensable in any project. Even in Scrum projects, we use burndown and burnup charts. Once the initial scope is set, the schedule is defined, and cost expectations are established, it's time to track real progress against them.
But then tracking also comes with a shade of grey, as different elements may follow different approaches.
With CHAMP, you learn techniques such as Earned Value Analysis integrated with Agile metrics, and how to use MS Project’s tracking tools to update percent complete, actuals, and forecast variances.
Other Shades of Grey
There are other shades of grey. In the CHAMP course, they are explained, elaborated, and demonstrated hands-on through real-world projects using the practical software tool MS Project Agile. I’ve highlighted a few above.
Want to know more? Consider becoming a CHAMP. See here.
Conclusion
CHAMP is not a paper tiger course. It’s a hands-on, tool-driven, scenario-based certification.
You don’t just learn theory needed, you also build hybrid plans hands-on, track real metrics hands-on, and generate reports hands-on.
The CHAMP certification exam is not a quiz! It’s a proving ground and practical-driven. The question standard, as reported by CHAMP certified professionals, is high.
The course includes over 100 exercises, two full-length practice Q&A sets, and a 15-day money-back guarantee. The emphasis is on hands-on mastery: from project setup, board configurations, and board management to applying Hybrid-Agile principles and management techniques.
All of these are crucial for both your hybrid-agile certification and real-world application.
The PMBOK® Guide, 8th edition, draft version has been made available on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) website. Like process group related processes and performance domains, the content for Agile has also seen changes.
First and foremost, parts of the Agile Practice Guide (APG) have been directly included in the PMBOK Guide, 8th edition. The APG may remain as one of the reference sources. In some areas, it has good content and explanations with respect to certain situations.
This post is in continuation of the earlier post on PMBOK Guide, 8th edition:
While the above linked post is more with respect to the guide part of the PMBOK Guide, this article is about both – the standard and the guide.
Overall, the PMBOK guide (6th, 7th and 8th editions) can be seen as a human – with a head (the standard part), body (the guide part) and legs (the terms, definitions etc. on which the head and body stand). This is shown in the figure to our left.
Again, do note that it’s a draft edition and hence the approved one will have additions, removals and modifications. A number of new contents can also be added.
Now, let’s see the changes briefly with respect to Agile, Hybrid and related content.
Development Approaches
The spectrum of development approaches remains the same in the PMBOK, 8th edition:
Predictive: It’s at one end of the spectrum. It’s used when requirement churn is low.
Adaptive: It’s at the other end of the spectrum. It’s used when requirement churn is high.
Hybrid: It sits in the middle and is a combination of predictive and adaptive.
Do note that the development approach is completely different from the project life cycle. Many confuse the two. The below three are distinct and separate in the PMBOK Guide, 8th edition.
Project Life,
Development Approach, and
Scheduling Approach.
Nevertheless, additional content has been put into various development approaches.
Predictive
This approach is mainly plan-driven. While going for the fully predictive approach (remember it’s a spectrum), one can follow the Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs (ITTOs) of the earlier mentioned 40 processes.
In the PMBOK 6th edition, there are 49 processes. You can watch it here. If you have understood the processes clearly in PMBOK6, it won't be very hard for you in PMBOK8. However, the most important part is the sequencing, flow of project management activities and understanding of the key ITTOs.
Now, considering PMBOK7 and PMBOK8, there have been big changes in the performance domains, which are governed by a set of principles. As noted in my earlier articles on PMBOK Guide, 7th edition (Part – 1 and Part - 2), the following one is still valid.
Principles guide the behavior. Performance domains are broad areas of focus to demonstrate that behavior.
In addition, there have been changes in the ITTOs. Completely new T&Ts are added for the first time. For example, new T&Ts have been added such as:
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Machine Learning (ML), which is part of AI
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The advantage with AI is that it can use vast amounts of project data/information, past data such as historical information, and can also take current, real-time data to make informed decisions, or can augment your ability to make decisions.
In addition, schedule optimization, resource optimization (supply and demand), schedule compression, detecting overallocations etc. can make use of Artificial Intelligence.
Adaptive (Agile)
Agile is both iterative and incremental. It’s a change-driven approach.
As you go through the PMBOK, 8th edition, you will find a number of tools and techniques (T&Ts) to manage Agile project. These are explicitly mentioned in the ITTO tables of the processes, which was not the case earlier. Examples are:
Daily Coordination Meetings,
Retrospective Meetings,
Project Canvas (yes, can be used in Agile too!). [In fact, the concept is used in Lean approaches.]
Backlog Management,
Backlog Refinement, among others
Coming to the inputs and outputs (I&Os), a number of them are newly introduced, such as:
Backlog,
Skill Matrix (in my view, can be used in all approaches),
User Stories, among others.
Hybrid (Adaptive and Predictive)
This is a combination approach using both predictive and adaptive, but is used across industry verticals. In one of my earlier articles in 2024, I noted the following:
As per PMI report, Hybrid usage (31.5%) is more than Agile (24.6%) among project professionals.
Now, the PMBOK, 8th edition (with the standard) outlines four popular hybrid-agilemethods:
Agile Development Followed by a Predictive Rollout
A Combined Agile and Predictive Approach Used Simultaneously
A Largely Predictive Approach with Agile Components
A Largely Agile Approach with a Predictive Component
Launched in 2021, the Certified Hybrid-Agile Master Professional (CHAMP) courseprovides a large number of hybrid models. The certifications is hands-on, practical and in-depth following all three: Hybrid-Scrum, Hybrid-Kanban and Hybrid-Scrumban.
CHAMP is the only such hands-on, hybrid-agile certification in the world.
Conclusion
As the PMBOK Guide changes and brings in new content, of course, there will be an impact on the future Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. It takes time to build on the new exam, which is effectively based on the exam content outline (ECO).
I’d also strongly recommend that you take the PMP exam as soon as you can, if you’ve prepared on the earlier editions of the PMBOK guide and APG. That way you don’t have to go through an entire set of new content.
In this post, we will visualize the retrospective work items in the boards, associate them with the Sprints as well as manage the retrospective work items.
Towards the end, we have certain key points to note followed with concluding remarks.
From your current view, switch to the Retro Board. This can be done by going to View tab > Task Views group and then selecting the Retro Board from the custom section.
This will result in the display of the newly created Retro Board view.
As shown in the above Retro Board view, all the retro items are part of the Backlog column.
There are other columns such as TODO, DOING and DONE.
I’ve customized the existing columns by renaming them.
% Complete values are also customized.
Do note that there is no Sheet view related to Retro Board view because we have not created one. As you proceed and use the board, we won’t be needing a sheet view. Hence, this corresponding view need not be created.
Associate Improvement Items with Sprints
Next, we are going to associate the work items with the upcoming Sprint. This will happen during the Sprint Planning Meeting for Sprint 2. Do note that at this stage, Sprint 1 complete with all its work items. The Sprint Planning Board view at this stage will look as follows.
As you can see in the above figure, all Sprint 1 are completed. Next, as you take the retrospective items for Sprint 2 and associate them with Sprint 2, you will have the following view in the Gantt Chart.
So, let’s see these items in the Retro Board view, too. But before that, one more twist! We have to customize the Cards to know the Sprints or which Sprint they belong to. This can be done by going to Task Board Tools > Format tab > View group > Format command. It’ll launch the Customize Task Board Cards dialog box as shown below.
As shown, Sprint is now added as one of the fields, so that we clearly know which items are taken for in which Sprint.
With the above customization, the Retro Board will now come as shown as below.
Customizing the cards provides you with a better visualization as you manage and track the items.
As shown above, now the cards are customized for each retro work item, and they show:
ID, Names, Durations, Start and Finish dates.
It also shows the Sprint names.
Manage Retro Work Items
To manage, you have to simply drag and drop the work items, move them across the workflow states as it happens for other works items in the Hybrid-Scrum project. When a work item reaches the DONE state, then you’ll find a tick mark towards the top right corner of the card. This is shown below.
If you have come this far, then you can quickly create a Retro Board, populate the work items, associate them with the Sprints and track them to completion.
This can be seen as well in the Hybrid-Scrum project with all the elements, which is shown below.
As you can see in the above figure, for our Hybrid-Scrum project, Sprint 1 is complete and Sprint 2 is currently under execution. For Sprint 2, you are not only completing the feature related work items, but also completing retrospective items.
Key Points to Note
As we reach the end of this article, here certain key points to note about Retro Board and associated items:
It can be used in Lean-Agile (Scrum or Kanban), or Hybrid-Agile projects. Hence, don’t have to create a separate project. The created retro board is integrated in.
Retrospective items are also part of your (Product) Backlog. This we saw in the earlier parts of this article.
Your team should take a few items, at most 2 for the next iteration or Sprint. When taken they will be part of the Sprint Backlog. Ensure that they are tracked and completed.
The retrospective items can be seen in the Current Sprint Board view because they are associated with respective Sprints.
A demonstration for the Retro Board is shown in the below video [duration: 04m:14s].
Conclusion
As the saying goes, simple things are always easy to remember compared to complex things. I believe this is the simplest way to track the retro items in a separate board.
It also a good idea to track the items in a separate board because the retrospective items are usually neglected by Lean-Agile teams as feature completion fever takes over considering the small iteration duration. However, as I noted in the beginning, retrospective is the most important ceremony among all and to honor it, you need to take and execute the retro work items.
Retrospective is an important event in Agile. In fact, I’d say the most important one. This is a meeting where the team finds out what they could have done better and what the improvement items are. Not only that, they will also have an execution plan to take up the improvement items.
At this point, it’s important to note that retrospectives and lessons learned meetings are not same! Retrospective also differs from intraspectives. While lessons learning meetings are conducted to identify and share the lessons learned in a project, phase or iteration to improve, retrospectives, on the other hand, are recurring events in Lean-Agile to explore the work done and improve based on the results. For for Scrum, it is at the end of the Sprint, whereas for Kanban, it’s can be based on cadence. Nevertheless, one can say retrospective is a form of lessons learned meetings.
The quickest way to take the retrospective items and implement them is by using the Retrospective Boards. The simplest ones are with the following columns in the board:
The above concepts are taken from ACP Live Lessons - Guranteed Pass. Let’s take the first one of StoStaKee. A sample board can be shown as below.
For this article, our focus is on the items which we want to do or execute the improvement items, which are in the “Start Doing” column.
These items will be taken into our Hybrid-Agile plan, put into the Retrospective Board and be executed. I’d strongly recommend that you check this article of Hybrid-Scrum management, before going deeper into this article.
Current Scenario: Our Hybrid-Scrum Project
We will take the plan from our earlier Hybrid-Scrum project, where we have multiple Sprints planned along with the predictive/waterfall elements. One of the Sprints is complete and at the end of the Sprint quite a few retrospective items were decided to be taken-up. This is shown in the below figure.
As shown in the multi-Sprints Scrum Development phase, we have completed Sprint 1. In the next Sprint’s (Sprint 2) planning meeting, the retrospective items that can be executed will be taken-up and planned for.
Next, let’s proceed with our creation of the Retrospective Board with MS Project Agile software tool. The board will have the retro work items. We will have the following steps.
Create isRetro Custom Field
As shown, first you have to create the isRetro custom field. It’s a Boolean Field.
You don’t have to change the:
Custom attributes
Calculation for assignment rows
Values to display
Just keep it simple, though further customization can be done.
Create a Retro Board Filter
Next, we will use the Retro Board Filter, a new custom filter. This can be created by going to View tab > Data group > Filter option > More Filter dialog box. In the opened-up box click on the “New…” command to create a new filter.
As shown below, the new filter created is Retro Board filter.
The above filter has the following parameters:
Show on Board is “Yes” or enabled.
Summary (Tasks) is “No” or disabled.
%Work Complete is 100%, i.e., incomplete work items will be shown.
Active is “Yes”, i.e., only Active tasks will be shown.
isRetro custom field is enabled for this filter. We have created this custom field before.
Create the Retro Board
Next, we will create the Retro Board, which will internally have the Retro Board filter that we just created.
To create such a board, go to View tab > Task Views group > Task Board drop down > More Views… command. This will open-up the More Views dialog box, where you can create a new Retro Board using the “New…” command.
As shown below, we have the Retro Board view available with the Retro Board Filter applied. Don’t forget to apply this filter.
Ensure to enable the “Show in menu” option, which helps in showing the Board when you quickly need it.
Add the Retrospective Items
As and when retrospectives happen in your Hybrid-Scrum project, you can add the improvement work items into the task items and hence the board. For this purpose, I’ll have another summary task and put all my retrospective items under that summary task.
Now, you may be wondering why not keep these items as parts of the Sprint? You can! But it’s not very effective. Also, you really don’t know which items will be taken in which Sprint. Do you? Rather, the items will be prioritized and then taken.
As shown below I’ve a summary task Retrospective Items, under which I’ve a number of retrospective work items.
Also, as you can see in the above figure:
No Sprint has been associated with the Retro work items.
The Show on Board field has been enabled.
The duration is not decided for the work items.
We can’t decide on the work items’ duration as that will happen during the upcoming Sprint’s planning meeting. Also, it’s a good idea and practice not to take more than 3 items for the upcoming Sprint. As I’ve seen, effectively, a Scrum Team can complete at most one or two items for an upcoming short Sprint of 2-week duration.
Next, we are going to visualize these work items in the newly created Retro Board.
The concluding part of this article is available here.
But as an aspiring professional wants to know about CHAMP, he or she is uncertain due to factors and has a number of questions.
Other “well-recognized” bodies also provide Hybrid-Agile certification. Why should I go for ManagementYogi’s CHAMP certificate?
I already have Agile certification such as Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Practitioner related. How will CHAMP add value to my career?
CHAMP certification is not well-known or well-established. How will I get recognition for my effort?
First and foremost, Agile and Hybrid-Agile are different concepts. The way of delivery is different when you compare Waterfall and Agile. Hybrid-Agile is when you combine waterfall or non-Agile with one or more Agile frameworks.
Hybrid-Agile has seen strong usages in industries and many surveys inform us that usage is on the rise. Learning the concepts and earning a certificate will definitely give a boost to your career and your professional growth prospects.
In this article, I’ll outline 10 top reasons to go for CHAMP certification. There can and will be other reasons as outlined by successfully certified CHAMPs.
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Reason – 1: CHAMP certification is the only certification in the world on Hybrid-Agile Management with strong emphasis on hands-on learning.
Indeed, there are many Hybrid-Agile certifications offered around the world. But not one – not even one – certification emphasizes hands-on learning!
CHAMP is the only certification in the world which takes your learning to the highest level. You can make a search, and you won’t find anyone offering such content.
Reason – 2: As a CHAMP, you will learn both theory and practical. While theory is needed, practical and hands-on applicability is crucial.
Almost all certifications are focused on the theoretical aspects. While theory is needed to learn and understand, practical aspects are very important when you go to the real world.
For example, let’s say you are asked to baseline a Hybrid project. How would you do that without using a software tool or knowing how to do it practically? Take another example of earned value management (EVM), which predictive projects need for regulatory compliance.
Your learning is effective only when you can apply it in the real-world. Otherwise, it’s just plain theory without practical applicability.
Reason – 3: The CHAMP credential is accepted and recognized by management practitioners around the world: North America, Europe and Asia.
This is one of the key questions that I face from aspiring CHAMPs – recognition. Is this certificate recognized? As a CHAMP, will I be accepted at my peer level of other certifications?
To answer directly, the certification is recognized by professionals around the world from North America to Asia to Europe. You will be in a specific group of high-achieving professionals, who actually know the management of Hybrid-Agile projects. Very few, if at all, have this skillset as this CHAMP Success Story informs.
Considering another aspect, as a CHAMP, you can demonstrate live – how Hybrid-Agile management happens with a hands-on software tool. In this case, the MS Project (Agile) software tool is used.
Reason – 4: With CHAMP certification, you will learn in-depth, hands-on Hybrid-Scrum Management. No other certification provides it.
Scrum is one of the popular Lean-Agile frameworks. But then:
How do you apply and employ Scrum within a Hybrid project?
Are the roles and responsibilities different or do they change for the project manager? Is there any separate role for the Scrum part?
How does one create a burnup or burndown chart specifically for the Scrum part of a hybrid project?
The CHAMP certification will teach you all of the above skills in a proficient manner. More importantly, it’s done in a demonstrative manner so that you can learn quickly.
Reason – 5: You will learn in-depth, hands-on Hybrid-Kanban Management. As a CHAMP, you will also learn Hybrid-ScrumBan management.
Kanban is another popular Lean-Agile framework. While Scrum is iteration based, Kanban is an on-demand, pull-based framework. CHAMP certification teaches all aspects of Hybrid-Kanban management.
With the CHAMP credential, you will also learn another framework and how to use it in a hands-on manner: Hybrid-ScrumBan. Scrumban combines both Scrum and Kanban. Indeed, a certified CHAMP guarantees it as you read in this CHAMP Success Story.
Reason – 6: Waterfall is here to stay. Agile is also here to stay. A CHAMP will know both and combine them to get the best from both!
The waterfall or predictive mode of development has been there for quite sometime, and it’s here to stay. Some industries can’t follow Agile, e.g., making a movie. Will you release a movie in a theater every two or four weeks in parts? Will customers come to watch such a movie? You know the answer!
Similarly, Agile is also here to stay. Agile is used when there is rapid churn in requirements and high uncertainty in the technology platform being used.
Now, as a CHAMP, you will know both waterfall and Agile and you are going to combine them both. This way, you will get the best of both and apply them in real-world projects. Imagine this skillet and the impact you will have while working with every possible kind of organization.
Reason – 7: From Waterfall to a CHAMP or from Agile to CHAMP is a natural progression. You need not have any previous certification to be a CHAMP. It goes from a beginner to advanced and finally, to expert level.
Hybrid-Agile combines both waterfall and Agile. Hence, if you are coming from a waterfall background or an agile background, it’ll be natural a progression for you.
Though the CHAMP certification is of high-standard, you can easily understand and master this exhaustive course content. The course takes from a beginner level to the level of an expert.
Reason – 8: You will know various Hybrid-Agile management types, principles, roles, responsibilities, team structures, among others.
Hybrid-Agile management comes with a variety of shapes and types. For example, it can be predominantly predictive (waterfall) with parts as adaptive, predominantly adaptive (adaptive) with parts as predictive. It can also be predictive and adaptive parts of a project running concurrently. If you consider the frameworks, then only Scrum, or Kanban can be used in Hybrid-Agile, or both Scrum and Kanban can be used. You will know them all.
As Hybrid-Agile Management is different, there will be different principles compared to traditional or agile management. You will know the distinct principles of this course. And of course, the team structure, roles, responsibilities will be clearly explained to you.
Reason – 9: You will get a large number of hands-on solution files, quizzes, practice questions. These will help you now as well as in the future.
The CHAMP certification has a high practical-orientation with the needed theory. Hence, the way the course is organized and the way the certification test happens is fundamentally different from any other certification in the world.
Because it is practically oriented, you will get numerous solution files. Specifically, these .mpp (Microsoft project plan) files. You will have lesson-end quizzes, practice questions, including full-length practice questions.
Based on practice and experience, you’ll take the final test and will be CHAMP certified, if you have faithfully prepared. You can have one retake, which is free of cost to you.
Reason – 10: If you are a PMP, ACP, SM or PO, the freshly updated CHAMP certification will enhance your resume. You can also apply your earlier learnings.
This is related to reason – 7, but with a different perspective for certified practitioners.
If you are a Project Management Professional (PMP), then you’d know the fundamentals as well as certain advanced aspects of traditional project management. Similarly, as an Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), Scrum Master (SM) or Product Owner (PO), you’d know Agile management in more depth.
Now, when you pursue CHAMP certification, you can use your earlier learnings on predictive (Waterfall) and/or adaptive (Agile). Because CHAMP combines them both. In other words, your earlier learning will help you know this unique skill of Hybrid-Agile in a hands-on manner.
Video Brief: Top 10 Reasons to Go for PfMP
The below brief video [Duration - 07m: 18s] is in support of this article. You can watch the videos to learn a few more points about the value of ManagementYogi's CHAMP certification.
Conclusion
As noted in the beginning, this is the only hybrid certification in the world with hands-on learning. You can read a number of published articles on hybrid management in this link.
As per a recent PMI report hybrid is considered to be a new standard and many organizations are following it. In fact, usage of Hybrid-Agile management is more compared to the Agile! You can read the report here.
As noted in the above linked report, Hybrid usage (31.5%) is now more than Agile (24.6%) among project professionals! This is depicted below.
If you are considering your career and growth opportunities, this certification provides in-depth understanding and knowledge on Hybrid-Agile management. You also learn with a hands-on software tool and it's a real competency. And as noted in one of the above reasons, a CHAMP certificate surely shines on your resume.
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