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A project in DevOps should logically change the management mechanisms. What are the responsibilities of a project manager in a DevOps project ?

Note: A project DevOps of what I understand is a project that has a beginning and an end, it is a temporary effort to create a product or a unique result and that uses the concept DevOps to produce a software.

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    That just sounds like a software project to me. Can you clarify the distinction?
    – Xiong Chiamiov
    Commented Jul 2, 2017 at 17:09
  • this is the link to this question at project mgmt SE but downvoted pm.stackexchange.com/questions/21883/…
    – Ta Mu
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 14:40
  • @XiongChiamiov I mean Software project in a DEVOPS context
    – AED
    Commented Sep 13, 2017 at 9:36

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Truth would be that should not happen in a DevOps environment . Your "project" will probably use Agile concepts, but there's nothing in DevOps telling how a project has to be run because DevOps is product centric (more details on the blog post and with search on this term).

"DevOps" is about breaking silos and have a team composed of developers, architects, ops, exploitation peoples who handle a software on its lifetime, that is antagonistic with the waterfall project approach.

To quote here Jez Humble:

Products not projects

So your answer would be : There's not responsibilities for a project manager on a DevOps product because the main idea behind devops is to have a team handling the product on long term and not on a planned project time only.

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  • Except maybe not go against the DevOps environment of the respective product just to get that particular project done :)
    – Dan Cornilescu
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 18:00
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    Usually if you form a project to change a devops managed product you break the engine running the product, just because you want to enforce a bunch of features in a counter productive way. The good approach should be to prioritize with the product owner the urgent features and keep the already running flow. Even a new product should not start in a project manner but should aim at building a team around the product with the business needs as a backlog IMHO
    – Tensibai
    Commented Aug 22, 2017 at 21:30

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