What’s In Between? Hybrid Agile Processes for Product Development

Speaker: Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Topic: What’s In Between?  Hybrid Agile Processes for Product Development

Description: Over the past few years, many organizations that manufacture tangible products have attempted Agile approaches for new product development.  Unfortunately, many of these processes fail to deliver the expected results in speed-to-market and flexibility.  Yet, returning to a full waterfall process remains bureaucratic and intractable with remote and virtual teams.  The solution is a hybrid agile-waterfall process. 

 Learning Objectives: 

1. Understand risk in innovation from a perspective of requirements uncertainty and technical uncertainty 
2. Identify different hybrid Agile-waterfall approaches to new product development 
3. Compare and contrast two organizations' designs of NPD systems based on risk tolerance and culture