Bridging the Gap Between Agility and Planning
This addresses the challenge of balancing agility and strategic planning in project management for organizations, though it appears incremental as a hybrid framework.
The paper introduces Milestone Driven Agile Execution (MDAX), a hybrid management framework that combines agile development's empirical control with strategic milestone planning for backlog prioritization, allowing organizations to choose their preferred development approach.
Milestone Driven Agile Execution is a hybrid management framework where the empirical control component of agile development is retained but the prioritization of the backlog is done according to a macro or strategic (milestone) plan that drives the execution of the project. MDAX is method agnostic, in the sense that the development approach is not embedded in the execution mechanism but in the plan that drives it. This allows organizations using it to choose the development approach that suites them most,