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How to disarm the Mexican standoff: PMO vs Agile Team

Gendry MoralesPrincipal Consultant

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Agile PMO

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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!