ow, you have to develop and grow as a project manager by becoming certified. For example, you can become PMP certified. The PMP certification is globally recognized.

1. What difference between a Project
Manager and a Scrum Master

2. • According to PMI, “Project management is the use of specific
knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to deliver something of value
to people”.

3. • Project management methodologies contain the knowledge, skills,
tools, and techniques required to deliver a project (something of
value to people). This means that I can simplify the definition of
project management to this: Project management Certification is the
use of project management methodologies to deliver something of
value to people.

4. Therefore, what are project management
methodologies?
Therefore, what are project management methodologies?
• There are three main methodologies:
• Predictive which is the waterfall methodology
• Adaptive which is the Agile methodology
• Hybrid – a mix of both waterfall and agile methodologies

5. Where does scrum come into play?
• Scrum is a framework under the Agile methodology. There are other
frameworks under the Agile methodology including eXtreme
Programming (XP) and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Wait a minute, this means that ideally, a Scrum Master role is
included in the role of a Project Manager because ideally, a Project
Manager should know how to use the Agile methodology of which
the Scrum framework is part.

6. Therefore a Scrum Master role is a subset or
type of a Project Manager role.
• Both roles deliver projects, however, the scrum master role uses a
specific project management framework to deliver projects.
• The role of a project manager is a generalist role (has the ability to
use any project management methodology and frameworks to deliver
something of value to people).
• While the role of a Scrum Master is a specialized role (focused on
using the scrum framework to deliver something of value to people).

7. For an organization that uses any methodology depending on the type of business value to be
delivered, a Project Manager is preferred because of the following reasons:
• A project manager is a generalist, hence has the understanding and
experience using different project management methodologies and
frameworks.
• They can assess various projects and determine what methodology
would be best to deliver the project.
• Has broad experience using various project management
methodologies.