The Contribution Of Project Manager In Agile Development

In2008, Ericsson as the world’s leading telecommunications operatorsto provide equipment and services provider, introduced the Agile methods toGlobal R&D departments, in order to closely follow the market developmentand meet the increasingly customers demand.The introduction of agile methods in Ericsson aims to establish softwaredevelopment capabilities to rapidly response to changes in customers’demand, continually improve the value of products. With new ways ofworkings being introduced, the role of project managers and managementrequirement has been changed a lot. The contribution of project managershas been one of confusions during the agile implementation in Ericsson.In order to answer above confusion, the article first introduces theconcept of agile models, and two kinds of efficiency (resource efficiencyand process efficiency). And then it builds one the contribution of projectmanager in Agile which is based on flow efficiency and value driven asdirection, after waterfall and agile development of comparative research.More importantly, the article illustrates the real practices in Ericsson in orderto analysis the effectiveness of this model and demonstrates the projectmanager’s existing value in an agile and irreplaceable responsibility. Last, Author has the outlook of the Agile Project Manager in achievingthe vision of enterprise-level agility and firmly believes in the other kinds ofagile projects (non-R&D project) project manager is also able to shine.