Understanding of project manager competency in agile software development project: The taxonomy

Abstract

The current growth of agile software development project (ASDP) continues to be more significant in the software industry. Project managers have important role to play in ensuring success of project. The success of a project depends on the competency of the project manager. Realizing on the lack of research on the project manager competency in ASDP such skill, knowledge, personal attribute and behavior. This research had taken initiatives in introducing; skill, knowledge, personal attribute and behavior that is needed by a project manager in ASDP. This paper contributes the relevant theory by developing taxonomy of the agile project manager’s competency. Practitioners can use this taxonomy as a sensitizing device that will help project manager.