Project Manager in the Agile World

I believe the two worlds of Agile and traditional project management will becomg increasingly hybrid.

There is a big mistake outside there: thinking that Agile ends in Scrum. There are other agile based methods like DSDM where the PM role is defined. In fact, DSDM has few marketing but is the method used in UK Goverment for example. Second, the importance that´s not rest in the role, the importance is in the functions the role performs then you will find the functions assigned to ther role or distributed between roles.

I think that we're going to be looking at a hybrid world moving forward but I think that it's going to be moving towards a larger emphasis on the role of "people" vs. "resources" and seeing how we can manage the documentation aspect of traditional waterfall in an agile world.

A lot will depend on how the organization chooses to staff its projects but in general most of the role of the PM remains unchanged - stakeholder engagement, financial management, risk management and so on.

However, assuming the PM is working with some agile leads (coaches/Scrum Masters), the responsibility for building a high performing team would migrate to those roles, and progress and work reporting would change from a push to a pull model. Finally, the PM would likely be a secondary point of escalation after the coaches/SMs.

I would also expect the PM to be shifting their closest working relationships from the team members to the PO & coaches/SMs.

Finally, the PM will need to broaden their "toolbelt" to be comfortable interacting with the all the possible "ways of working" which the team might land upon to deliver the scope of the project.

I agree fully with Mr.Sergio and partly with others. The PM role becomes more broadened with additional responsibilities to drive traditional, Agile or hybrid projects going forward. Infact Project Manager role will be key to bring requisite stakeholders/SMES from the customer organization and service provider organizations. Cost containment, effective delivery and backlogs will keep PM more engaged then traditional SDLC based projects. Project Assessment criteria and qualification mechanism of Agile Vs Traditional Vs Hybrid becomes critical process for every organisation.

Definitely, interesting changes have been happening around the delineation of roles. The line is blurring for what organizations seem to be looking for. And with the adoption of a hybrid model in many organizations, there is an increasing number of hybrid PM's with an equal increase for a need of PM's with that specific experience. Just take a look at the specifications in Job Req's.

I agree with Sergio.

I agree with Sergio.