Abstract
The use of Agile methodologies in software development has grown steadily over recent years. One of the main emphases of these methods is employing cross-functional and self-organized teams and highly skilled developers in software projects. In such a condition, project management would be a serious concern. Indeed, it would be confusing whether Agile teams are really in need of the role of the project manager. While Agile methodologies do not explicitly define the role of the project manager, many reports mention the existence of this role in Agile projects in real environments. So, it seems that the existence of this role is debated. Conducting a Systematic Literature Review, this study tried to find out answers to the ambiguities and questions regarding the role of Agile project management, the role of the project manager, and related issues. Focusing on the primary studies, the results show that there is no independent job called project manager in Agile methodologies. However, there is a need for it. Moreover, in the absence of this role in Agile methodologies and the need for it, it seems that this role would be structurally different from the traditional role of the project manager in terms of responsibilities and duties. Finally, the results show that pre-defined roles in Agile methodologies are often responsible for the project manager duties in software teams with no project manager.
Highlights
Project management has been proposed as a system for prediction and correction of collective performance
This study introduces Scrum as an Agile method in which there are some roles that can do the duties of project managers
The results of this study mainly indicated the challenges of using Scrum as a project management framework
Summary
Project management has been proposed as a system for prediction and correction of collective performance. This concept includes a set of best practices to organize the required activities to complete a project [1], [2]. The SLR research study will be fruitful by investigating the results of previous studies accurately. In this method, only the most important and common citation databases were used to extract the related studies. Only the most important and common citation databases were used to extract the related studies This may lead to neglect of studies that have been sporadically published in other databases. A brief description of the works related to the present study was provided from miscellaneous databases
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