During the last week I got a seminar organised by my employer. During one of the lunch breaks I found some time to talk to one of our project managers. He stated, that he basically likes the Scrum method. Unfortunately there is one big thing, why he does not like Scrum at all: They do not need project managers.

This statement initiated some research interest within me. Since I have not yet found the time to read through Agile Software Development with Scrum by Mike Beedle and Ken Schwaber – it’s on my order list at amazon since end of January – and don’t know that much about Scrum, I would welcome any articles worth reading on the need for project management within agile projects.

My personal intention is to find out more about agile development and how to establish it within our organisation. My first try is to do this by showing how agility works within a small test automation project. Lately I got a lot of inspiration by reading several newsgroups on agile related topics and additionally I took my last vacation to do a review of Lisa Crispin’s and Janet Gregory’s upcomig book on agile testing (I would order it right away if it was finished, yet). For the project management part I would also like to provide a solution, since our organisation is used to work in a matrix organisation and I very confident, that agile projects – even when they are very complex – need of course someone to check interdependencies and lead the project to success.

If you have something on your list, that you would like to me read to get a better inside, please add a comment to this article. I would be very pleased.