Determining Basic Types of Hybrid Product Development Processes by Means of Typification

In recent years, the industry has been relying on the use of hybrid process models, i.e. the integration of agile and plan-driven approaches into a combined development approach. However, successful implementation has been hampered due to a lack of systematic combination patterns for the use of hybrid process models. Therefore, this research focusses on the identification of so-called basic types of hybrid development processes by means of typification. Unsystematic integration and the combination of arbitrary characteristics of agile and plan-driven approaches is neither meaningful nor purposeful. Instead, the arrangement of different characteristics must follow a certain logic to ensure the integration of a consistent process. Therefore, the infinite amount of random combination possibilities of plan-driven and agile model characteristics has to be reduced to a limited number of consistent combination patterns. Consequently, the following methodology determines basic types of hybrid product development processes by means of typification.