Can IT PM be a SCRUM master or is best practice to have these as separate roles? Saving Changes...
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
My recommendation is taking a look to Scrum Guide to understand the Scrum Master role and the others. You will see that, general speaking, the duties of PM are distributed between various roles in Scrum. Saving Changes...
there is what the Scrum Guide says and what is practiced in reality in most companies. Very few companies which adopt Scrum eliminate PM roles entirely. If you have multiple agile teams working together to deliver a large solution, you still would need a PM to work with the one or more SMs supporting the individual teams.
As Sergio indicates, in an ideal situation, the combination of the 3 core Scrum roles can perform the various activities required of a PM, but that is usually not see in practice.
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Anyone with the requisite skills can be a SM. But the SM is not a project manager so if somebody who was formerly a PM is going to take on the SM role then that person ought to understand that they are no longer acting as a PM for the piece of work in question (they might be PM for other projects I suppose).
If the PO and dev team have an optimal working relationship then there is no need for a project management role in Scrum. Saving Changes...
