Publisher and edition
The 3rd printing changes some terms compared to the first print of 2023. The role formerly called development team is now the execution organization, individual scenarios are now user-defined scenarios, and the manual no longer speaks of hybrid project management.
Who uses HERMES
HERMES is the standard method in the Swiss Federal Administration. Many cantons, cities and municipalities use it too, as do companies that deliver projects to the public sector. A tender often names HERMES as a requirement for the project organisation and the documentation.Traditional and agile
HERMES supports two ways of developing the solution:- Traditional: the solution is developed phase by phase in Concept, Implementation and Deployment.
- Agile: the solution is developed iteratively and incrementally in a single phase, Execution. The agile development method itself, for example Scrum, stays a black box inside HERMES. HERMES only defines the outcomes and roles that connect it to project steering and reporting.
The method elements
HERMES in Collabase
Collabase gives you one place for the project plan, the documents, the registers and the approvals of a HERMES project. You map the phases and milestones in Projects, write the outcome documents in Collabase Docs from templates, keep the risk and decision registers in Registry, and route phase releases through an Approval node in Automation.Phases
Start with the phase model.
Set up HERMES in Collabase
Go straight to the setup.