Methods of methodologies hybridization in the management system of development
projects of self-managed organizations
Authors: Ivko Andrii 
Published: March 2024

The article proposed methods of hybridization in the implementation of syncretic
methodology in projects of self-managed organizations. Challenges facing modern
projects, in particular infrastructure restoration projects, are analyzed. Among such
challenges, war, the urgent need for restoration projects, the multicultural environment
of restoration projects, the need to create a new methodology for managing such projects
are highlighted. Analyzed studies that analyzed the mixing of methodologies for managing
individual projects or portfolios, in particular in the form of hybridization of
management methodologies. Formulated research goal. An analysis of the applicability to
hybridization and syncretism and to the use in self-managed organizations and in
infrastructure restoration projects of the following mix of methodologies was carried
out – a PMBOK-like mix; a mix of PRINCE2-like methodologies, a mix of P2M-like
methodologies; mix of methodologies of IT companies; a mix of separate Agile methodology
frameworks; a mix of customized hybrids of Agile methodology frameworks; a mix of
hybrids, in each of which the classic methodology is combined with the Agile framework.
It was determined that a mix of hybrids, in each of which the classical methodology is
combined with the Agile framework, or a mix of hybrids, in each of which the classical
methodology is combined with the Agile framework, will be the most adequate for the
tasks of the researched project. The concept of "syncretic hybridization" is defined.
Four methods of syncretic hybridization of project management methodologies are proposed
- the method of simple reactive syncretic hybridization, the method of integral reactive
syncretic hybridization, the method of simple proactive syncretic hybridization, the
method of integral proactive syncretic hybridization. A description of the methods and a
methods implementation schemes are given. A SWOT analysis was conducted, strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities arising from the application of the specified family of
hybridization methods within the syncretic project management methodology, and threats
that may arise were highlighted. Formulated fields of further research in the chosen
direction: formalization of interface models of syncretic project management methodology
at the level of corporate methodology of a self-managed project-oriented organization;
formalization of syncretic methodology hybridization methods, expedient expansion of the
family of methods; formalization of the criteria for choosing one or another method of
syncretic hybridization under different conditions of the internal and external project
environment; the use of elements of artificial intelligence in the methods of syncretic
hybridization and syncretic methodology in general; practical approbation of models and
methods of syncretic hybridization within the syncretic methodology of project
management in the implementation by self-managed organizations of projects and
portfolios of infrastructure restoration projects of Ukraine. Conclusions from the
conducted research are formulated.