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How to disarm the Mexican standoff: PMO vs Agile Team
Gendry MoralesPrincipal Consultant
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a normal sentence
Agile PMO
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the full stop
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MY JOURNEY
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Let’s talk about the standoff
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40% of people said Rigid/Waterfall Framework a barrier to further Agile adoption.
State of Agile Survey 2016
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Following the process is most important, that’s what we get audited on.
You must submit comprehensive mandatory documentation – the more pages the better.
Stakeholders must sign off your documents and committees must approve your funding before you proceed.
Following the plan, within the prescribed tolerance band, meeting time/cost is the most important. You will be punished if you want to
change the plan, going through change variation processes and additional committees to gain approval
And good luck with this whole Agile thing
Is this the Manifesto for the PMO?
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… now it’s time to grow up
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shake it off… shake it off
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Value of a PMO?
…respondents from high-performing organizations report saving their organizations an average of US$186,000 per project and improving their
alignment of projects with business objectives a whopping 53%...State of the PMO 2014
A capability to optimise strategic investment across
your Portfolio
Helps teams better align to
strategy, prioritiseand meet business
objectives.
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Connecting delivery with Strategy
Prioritisation models and demand management
Investment Allocation to support strategic priorities
Providing delivery expertise, coaching & training
Methods, tools and process
Managing through execution
Reporting and analysis of: performance, benefits, finance
and risk to name a few
Review and reflection
Governance structures
Decision making
Continual improvement & learning
PMO
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DO THE RIGHT THING
Collaborative prioritisation and Value Stream design
Lightweight feasibility and analysis
Determine level of investment, capacity based funding aligned and dynamic budgeting
Flow based demand management, capacity matching early on to avoid over utilisation
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Enabling emergent practice, balancing need for consistency and methodology where appropriate
Removing blockers and dependencies
Enabling better teams through coaching, enabling learning culture, agile games and sharing new methods through cross pollination of knowledge
DO THE THING RIGHT
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Gemba and engagement over reports
Evidence based measurement and demos over progess against a plan
Value and benefits velocity, progress against sprint goals
Use measures to learn and to adapt
MEASURE
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Retro of retros, improving the system.
From stage gate governance to decision making on the timebox
Empower teams, decentralise decisions
Don’t govern the “how”, provide the vision and goal and set the minimum constraints
LEARN & ACT
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THE FUTURE
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Combining capability functions. Enabling
PMO
Strategy
BusinessPlanning
ChangeManagement
Culture
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Embedded in Product Lines & teams
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Old Fashioned
Project Management Office
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It’s not really a standoff, it’s not a methodology war, it’s a new
challenge.
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Can you Agile your PMO?
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GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY
Gendry Morales
Thank you!