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An agile PMO succeeds by enabling value delivery and organisational change, not by enforcing process.

  • Agile adoption is an organisation-wide change programme, so the PMO must adapt its role and skills.
  • Focus PMO support on value to the right stakeholders at the right time, tailored to each project’s needs.
  • Avoid mandating one set of practices; build pull by making support attractive and easy to access.
  • Start with a small, willing project and measure progress by frequent delivery of working products.Discover CATWOE and transform your approach to problem-solving
  • Develop centre-of-excellence services: standards, capability development, multi-project coordination, and stakeholder support.
Simon BuehringAgile PMO

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Coordinating projects between agile teams. Some of this can be done by sharing things such as progress, issues, risks and retrospective findings and improvements. Another way is by using appropriate portfolio and programme management frameworks to provide decision-making support for investment decisions taken at the portfolio and programme levels.

Facilitating organisational learning

Gathering, storing and disseminating project metrics and retrospective findings.

Managing stakeholders

Providing support and training for business leaders, especially in the product owner role, on things such as acceptance testing, and how to evaluate and give feedback on systems.