Stakeholders can make or break projects, in order to ensure project
success, effective stakeholder management is required. Identifying key
stakeholders, dealing with difficult ones and creating a management plan can be
overwhelming if you don't know where to start. Building
positive relationships with stakeholders and proactively meeting their
expectations can make the life of a project manager much, much easier.
By the nature of the work that Project Managers and Scrum Masters do, the two are not particularly closely aligned, even if it seems at first glance that they are. Managing a project is not the same as being a Scrum Master. Scrum Masters have the role of mentoring, teaching, coaching and facilitating, while the role of the Project Manager is to ensure that the project runs to time and budget. This means that the Scrum Master relies on more of the so-called “soft skills” involved with helping people to move forward, while the Project Manager takes a more methodical, and arguably more of a “hard skills” approach. While both roles have an interest in ensuring a high level of team performance and driving efficiency within the team, the ways in which they go about this are very different. The Scrum Master facilitates and coaches, while the Project Manager assesses risk and manages issues and conflicts. Looking closer at what Project Managers and Scrum Masters do in terms of ...
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