How will the Project Manager role survive the Agile hype?

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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia

Some organisations are replacing the PM with Scrum Masters or are pushing the PM in a financial reporting corner.
Is there a place for the traditional PM responsible for scope, time, budget in the Agile world?

Posted: Dec 17, 2018 10:57 PM

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Piotr Przespolewski IT Manager| Roche Warsaw, Poland

Jan 01, 2019 7:18 AM

Replying to Mario Coquillat

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I think project manager role must evolve, but not disappear.

Probably more focus on strategy and stakeholder management.

Also most of companies are looking for a hybrid approach, so you still need the role, specially because scrum master is not always a role, but some responsibilities developed by project team.

Strongly agree. I run several hybrid projects in Telco where we successfully combined waterfall with agile as there was not possible to fully switch to one of the model. Therefor evolution is the right way to follow.

Posted: Jan 7, 2019 4:15 AM (Updated by author: Jan 7, 2019 4:16 AM)

Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

First let me say I love the post title - survive the agile HYPE. It is indeed a hype since it is not new and advocates what we have, or should have done for decades. Now like all hypes you all of a sudden must be an agile this and agile that in order to do the job. BS!!! What you do is not defined by your job title but by the function you perform and the functions performed by a PM still exist. You might use different tools,techniques or ceremonies but that only mean you are evolving. In an attempt to be gender neutral/politically correct many job titles were changed over the years but that did not make them obsolete.

Posted: Jan 8, 2019 12:10 AM

Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia

There will always be a need for skillful and Experienced project managers for Stakeholder, scope, Schedule , Risk , Communication and Budget Management, with or without Agile being in the picture.

Posted: Jan 8, 2019 12:16 AM (Updated by author: Jan 8, 2019 12:16 AM)

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