1. What is the role of a PM in a DevOps setup?
2. Is this a good change for someone who has reasonable experience in Waterfall/PMI and little exposure in handling Agile project? How relevant is it in the market?
2. What are the relevant courses and certifications for someone aspiring to move towards DevOps from a Project Management angle?
Hi Rajan,
the "traditional" role and responsibilities in a DevOps environment are still valid and remain. From my point of view there a no "Agile Projects". We should talk about projects and the appliance of agile practises like Scrum and this is mainly the way of thinking and values how we approach how to get project work done. It is from my point of view independent whether we talk Waterfall or altternative approaches. For PMs coming from "traditional" waterfall the way of agile working practices using product backlog, sprints is good, because it forces teams to work with high discipline, focus and early visibility of deliverable results. But again, the PM role and responsibilities still remains. I expect a lot more comments to come related to your questions, especially good advices on courses and certifications like PMI-ACP, but I am not in a position to give specific advise to that topic. Saving Changes...
Correction: First sentence should start: the "traditional PM role and responsibilities".... Saving Changes...
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
It depends on your organization. If they're developing and supporting software along the entire system/application life cycle, there may not be a "definite end." Support will eventually cease, of course, but if you don't know when that will be, then it's hard to define as a "project," meaning there might not be a project manager.
This doesn't mean your project management skills and experience are unwelcome, but you may want to refocus on product management or process management rather than project management. In the meantime, study up on DevOps and find out if there's something you like about it. There are certifications available, but none of them are universally recognized or accepted, to my knowledge. Saving Changes...
