IT Managers in a Scrum world

Sorry - hit enter too fast.  I was to say, the more responses the better so I can get a collective view of the various possible futures.

Hi Gary,

By making the decision to transition from waterfall to agile your business if they realise it or not have decided to move away from dictatorial management that has multiple layers to something that is flatter and more collaborative. This is usually accompanied by a shift in how performance is measured, in my experience OKRs work well with agile teams.

What value do you think your Application Managers and Business Development managers can provide within the Scrum framework?   How can they help the teams if there is no role in Scrum for them to assign work?   Remember, there is no assigning work in Scrum.  

The P.O. offers work to the team each sprint, and the team forecasts what they feel they can complete each sprint according to their own evaluation of productivity and capacity.   I'm omitting the crafting of the Sprint Goal needed to guide these decisions, but you get the picture.

Unless your company is moving to a Holocracy, you will likely still have some employee management structure around reviews and such, but what is important is to consider what your Scrum Team members will be measured against from a performance perspective.  

In my opinion, that would need to change significantly, from establishing near and long-term goals and objectives to a more team-based accomplishment evaluation.   I have seen many companies develop evaluations solely on what Scrum Team members were able to both learn and teach (knowledge transfer, cross-training).

Good luck.