project management in agile organizations - the project managers role

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The project managers role in

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Definition of project

• Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals. … The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual.

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Source: Wikipedia


When it comes to Agile Project Management it is worth noting that most agile processes - and Scrum in particular - do not include a role called “project manager”. Without a specific person tasked with performing all managing duties, those responsibilities are distributed among the other roles on the project, namely the team, the ScrumMaster, and the Product Owner.

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Product Owner

The product owner has responsibility for deciding what work will be done. This is the single individual who is responsible for bringing forward the most valuable product possible by the desired date. The product owner does this by managing the flow of work to the team, selecting and refining items from the product backlog. The product owner maintains the product backlog and ensures that everyone knows what is on it and what the priorities are. The product owner may be supported by other individuals but must be a single person

(SCRUM alliance)

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The SCRUM-master

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. Scrum Masters do this by ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.

The Scrum Master helps those outside the Scrum Team understand which of their interactions with the Scrum Team are helpful and which aren’t. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.

(The SCRUM Guide, Sutherland/Schwaber)

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What function does the Project Manager have towards the Srum team?(Scrum Master, Product Owner, Customer Stakeholder)

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