scrum master vs project manager, the role
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Presented in August 2013 at the Sydney Project Managers meetup group, this was a presentation to highlight the key differences between these two roles and the place that Project Managers may have in the future of Agile organisations.TRANSCRIPT
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Scrum Master vs.Project ManagerRenee Troughton
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Upton Sinclair’s dictum
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.”
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Gartner“Quite simply, waterfall methods, when used in the traditional, project-based manner, are inconsistent and risky. Since there are other choices available that have the potential to be more consistent and less risky, it's time to begin the transition to
these methods.”
The End of Waterfall as We Know It, 2012
“The breadth of penetration into our client base (of Agile) is fairly high, but the depth is fairly low. Upwards of 50% of Gartner’s client base is using Agile, but less than 10% of work being done is actually being done in an
Agile way.”
Matthew Hotle, vice president Gartner Research.
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An exercise in responsibilities
Project Manager
Team Other
Round 1: In a non Agile environment
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An exercise in responsibilities
Project Manager
Team Other
Round 2: In an Agile environment
Scrum Master
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Theory X vs Theory Y Leadership
Employees enjoy their mental and physical work duties. They will learn to seek out and accept responsibility and to exercise self-control and self-direction in accomplishing objectives to which they are committed.
Workers need to be closely supervised and comprehensive systems of controls developed. Employees will show little ambition without an enticing incentive program and will avoid responsibility whenever they can.
X
Y
Douglas McGregor, The Human Side of Enterprise, 1960.
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Servant Leadership
“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the
servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of
human nature.”
Robert Greenleaf, The Servant as Leader, 1970.
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The Scrum Master
DirectiveFacilitative
and Advisory
Cross Facilitative
Coaching and
Supportive
Double Loop
Learning
100% Scrum Master’s day to day involvement
Scrum Team’s Self Autonomy
The Scrum Master role is like a hat.
When the Scrum Team is functioning they take off that hat
and help out to deliver the Sprint’s goals
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Options
Scrum Master AND Project Manager
Scrum Master AND Project Manager
Scrum of Scrums Scrum Master
Program/Portfolio Office
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References
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Questions?
@AgileReneehttp://www.theagilerevolution.com
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