Agile Project Manager Competencies in Software Development Projects:A Systematic Literature Review

Managing a software development project is becoming more challenging due to the complexity of requirements and software development processes. This resulted in many software development projects could not be completed successfully. Therefore, to overcome this problem, a project manager who has the skills and knowledge is required. However, the problems can be reduced by adopting agile methodology in software development projects. Past literature summarized that agile increase the chances of project success rate. Hence, this study aimed to investigate what are the skills and knowledge required by project managers when adopting agile in managing the software development projects. A systematic literature review has been carried out in order to develop the agile project manager competency model. Traceability metrics and map of findings used to locate the current research and resolve problem in the field of agile project manager competency model. The information regarding of agile project manager competency model and agile development process also has been covered in the literature review. This trigger needs a systematic literature review whereby it covers agile project manager competency model in the context of involvement in agile development process and various perspective of quantifying it. Literature research related to project manager and agile development process reveal 150 papers, and after further reading, 30 articles are identified as primary paper. The results of systematic literature review lead to development of conceptual model in this study. Keywords-Requirements, Software Development Process, Skills, Knowledge, Methodology, Traceability Metrics