Succeeding with Agile

Personnel Responsibilities

In most organizations, functional managers will retain responsibility for writing periodic reviews of the personnel in their departments. Although the functional manager has hopefully always incorporated input from each employee’s coworkers and customers into the review, the need to do so is greater in a Scrum environment because the employee will likely be working less closely with the functional manager on a day-to-day basis.

See Also

Periodic performance reviews are discussed in Chapter 20, “Human Resources, Facilities, and the PMO.”

In many organizations, functional managers also retain responsibility for making hiring and firing decisions. Neither the ScrumMaster nor the product owner has this level of authority ...