It all started because of a frustrating day which included numerous demonstrations of wasted tima and effort for reasons I have not been able to understand. So I posted a message on twitter (140 characters ideally suit me as an introvert) and the respondents challenged me to write more about it. Here it is but it is split in 3 posts. First of all because it is taking me a long time to finish the 3rd answer (I somehow manage to always get quite busy) and also because I just don't like long blog posts (see above).
So here it goes... I decided to answer this question because I have seen it being asked so many times and
because I was beginning to feel frustrated not only with the answers I was
reading about but also with what I was able to witness in several of
organisations and departments. So I decided to share my answers and perhaps next time someone
asks the same question I can point people to my opinion (which I hopefully
would have validated by then).
My intention is to provide 3 slightly different answers. This blog post has only the first answer which I called
The short answer
If you don’t have the time or strength to read through the
rest of the blog posts I offer you my short answer now so you can go elsewhere and do
something you would appreciate more than reading my blog.
The role of the
Project manager in Agile is “None”; not required; doesn't exist.
And if it exists in a context then a big part of Agile is
probably not implemented , ignored, tweaked and so on. I am all about the context and local changes, etc.. however some changes or rather practices implemented without others most probably would make insignificant ot no differerence at all. That's it. if you agree or disagree - feel free to find me on twitter.
If you however think this short answer is not good enough then
read on…
Part #2 is coming soon...
