Create Your Successful Agile Project

Agile Project Managers Facilitate to Serve

An agile project manager facilitates and serves the entire team. Agile project managers identify and manage risks that the team needs someone to manage.

Here is a list of what an agile project manager might do at the team level:

• Facilitate the team’s process. New-to-agile teams don’t have the agile mindset and culture baked into their DNA. Who will learn more about how they can make agile work for them? Who will schedule the demo and the retrospective and make sure the two meetings occur?

• Remove or enable removal of impediments the team members can’t remove. Many impediments are at the organization level. The team isn’t going to tackle them. The team “delegates” the impediment to the project manager. ...