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Here in Part I, we begin a series that looks at the issues surrounding project management husbandry, comparing data collected from a 2003 Cutter survey with that from a survey conducted in 2001.
Part I indicated a continued shift toward smaller IT budgets and projects from those in our 2001 survey. We also saw a greater emphasis placed on hitting IT project budgets. Here we'll concentrate our efforts on the influence of lifecycle models and project requirements on project success and quality.
A question for many agile software development teams is, what is the project manager's role during an iteration? If the team is managing its own work assignments and is accountable for results, what does the project manager do other than stay out of the way and occasionally buy pizza on Friday?
