A Comparative Study on Hybrid IT Project Managment Using Traditional Project Management and Agile Approach

Traditional Project Management Methodologies (TPMM) aim to prevent change by extensively planning and documenting as much as possible before the system is developed while change is inevitable and that it is not to be avoided. Additionally, Traditional Project Management rely more on processes, sequential software development, like waterfall. Consequently, there is a demand for system development methodologies and project management methodologies with the ability to adapt to a changing project and business environment. The aim of this study is to investigate hybrid IT project management that flexibly combining the traditional and the agile method; it emphasizes on two method of blending Scrum, an agile method, into traditional plan-driven project development and management such as waterfall or into structured and widely accepted project management methodologies such as Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). A comparison is then done of the two selected different hybrid methods. KeywordsProject Management, waterfall, Agile Method, PMBOK, Scrum Model;