SMUMN Difference Between a Scrum Master and A Project Manager Pecha Kucha PPT

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Business Finance

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

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The Question has been for several years "What is the difference between a ScrumMaster and a Project Manager?"  Lots of articles have been written and in some cases some pretty polarizing statements.

Your assignment is to prepare a Pecha Kucha presentation with recordings and use at least the articles listed below as references.  You should include: 1) why is it important to talk about this difference, 2) what is the difference 3) what you believe the correct viewpoint is and 4) how does your company handle this role distinction today or if they don't, how do you think they would handle it?

Here are a couple of examples of how to do a Pecha Kucha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WEzM3LFhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zxNTpNMLo

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Scrum master is an individual who ensures a true framework that

allows teams to work together on a given project and gives the
expected results while a project manager is a professional individual
with the relevant skills in project management.

The following are the reasons why it is important to talk about the
difference between Scrum Master and Project Manager:
✓ Understanding of roles. This helps both the Scrum Master and the
Project Manager to understand their respective roles in a project.

✓ To avoid misunderstanding. It helps the people who work under
these two(scrum master and project manager) to understand the
roles and the responsibilities of their managers hence making it
easy for them to know who is responsible for which activity within
the organization thus efficiency.

✓ To avoid conflict. Talking about scrum master and project manager
results to absence of conflict. This is achieved as each of them
understands his or her role and the job boundary. Otherwise, it
would have been difficult for the two to understand the job

boundary and this may result to conflict due to role
misunderstanding.

✓ Division of labor and specialization. Talking about the difference
between scrum master and project ma...


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