So, You Want to Be an Agile Functional Manager?

One of the most prevalent fears for managers in an organization going through agile transformation lies in the uncertainty of their new role. Agile advocates for self-managed, cross-functional, and multidisciplinary teams. What does that mean for functional managers? This blog post aims to illustrate the reasons why we may want to reshape the functional manager role in a traditional organization, and offer suggestions for what the functional manager role could be molded into. Traditional Role What does a functional manager do in a traditional organization? Consider a typical waterfall software development model: According to this model, organization is naturally divided into teams defined by functional roles. For example, there may be a business analyst team that gathers business requirements, a software engineering team that implements, a quality assurance team that verifies, and an operations team that maintains. A functional manager within this organization is likely to develop certain tendencies due to the circumstances.

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