The Agile PMO
Value-driven
Agile Project Management
Office
Brno, 24th March2015
Michael Nir
President Sapir Consulting US
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Michael Nir
• President @ Sapir Consulting US LLC
• M.Sc. Engineering, PMP®, SAFe™ accredited
consultant
• Author of 11 bestseller business books
• Global clients - telecoms, hi-tech, software
development, R&D environments and petrochemical
& infrastructure
• Integrating the hard and soft parts of Business,
Development and more
[email protected]
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Starting with the end in mind
• It is all about value – and no, documents don’t
provide it;
• A Lean method for selection and prioritization;
• PMO focus on strategic resources, Agile provides
the local empirical leadership;
• PMO perception – leading the change;
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It just doesn’t
Work
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Do you realize value from your PMO?
TRICKY QUESTIONS ☺
• How many of you manage a PMO or have a PMO
in the organization
• Have you seen failures?
• What are the challenges?
• Yes we have a PMO in the organization and…
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Truly – PMOs don’t deliver
RESEARCH
Gartner 2012
ESI 2013
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Review
Most of the challenges we experience in the modern project organization
stem from complexity!
•
Selection of projects
•
Allocation of resources
•
Forecasting in a dynamic system
•
Communication in virtual environment
What can we do about project complexity – create PMOs maybe to
control better?
Before though , let’s experience a complex system
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50%
Failures
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How did we get here?
THE STORY OF PETE
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The PMO evolution
THE STORY OF PETE
Build me a
PMO worthy
of Londec!
Yes
Master
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The first steps…
THE STORY OF PETE
What to do?
Maybe some
research?
Analysis of Current
state?
Interviews?
I know…
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How did we get here?
PAIR ACTIVITY
Provide a
Mission / Vision
statement for a
PMO
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The Mission
THE STORY OF PETE
The mission of the Project Management Office
(PMO) is to provide an enterprise-wide approach
to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute a
technology portfolio of initiatives and projects
that are aligned with the Helsink strategic goals
and educational vision…
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The Gap Analysis – Stakeholders
LEAD EXPECTATIONS
No Tools
No Process
Training
No Tools
I need a
Home
Training
No Tools
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Worthy PMO
Strategic
Alignment
The Gap Analysis – Executives
LEAD EXPECTATIONS
Worthy PMO
Strategic
Alignment
I need Reports!
Better Control!
A methodology
NOW
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PMOs lose focus – waste money
Pay me
a Lot!
I can
help
Training
Need
Assessment?
PMBOK?
PLC
New
Reports
and
Templates
I need a
Staff
Maybe
Select
Tools
Support
the PMs
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Discuss with the person next
What
Would
You Do?
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The Typical next steps
PMO FAILURES
• The tactical PMO
• The process PMO
• The chocking PMO
50%
• The tools PMO
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Drowning in administration
TACTICAL PMO
• Super secretaries:
– Collect data
– Write down project plans
– Manage project issues
– Summarize meetings
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Glamor of
being where
‘things
happen’ - on
top
Escaping from Process Alcatraz
PROCESS PMO
•
‘The bureaucracy is
expanding to meet the
needs of the expanding
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bureaucracy’ (O. Wilde.)
The Unavoidable Crash
BITING TOO MUCH
Losing
Focus
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Focusing on tools not on value
TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS
Starting with
tools Eternalizes
the wrong
WOW
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We can do
Better!
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What makes a
PMO Agile
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PMO Value Enablement
Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
Effective, streamlined
The Agile
PMO
delivery
reduce waste
Agile Leadership
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PMO value enablement
Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
Effective, streamlined
The Agile
PMO
delivery
reduce waste
Agile Leadership
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Toyota defined 7 wastes
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Reduce waste – process and project
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PMO is best suited
to remove waste of
project and process
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Remove
Document Waste
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Remove
Project Scope
Waste
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Kanban the Waterfall
REMOVE PROJECT WASTES
• Cancel projects
• Prioritize projects
• Limit projects in queue
• Limit projects in process
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Remember:
when Everything
is Important
Nothing is
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Review - PMO value enablement
Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
effective, streamlined
The Agile
PMO
delivery
reduce waste
Agile Leadership
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SAFe™ - Scaled Agile
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SAFe® selection and prioritization –
Kanban approach
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PMO is best
positioned to
Kanban the Selection
and Prioritization
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Create Kanban
Buckets for
selection
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Review - PMO value enablement
Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
effective, streamlined
The Agile
PMO
delivery
reduce waste
Agile Leadership
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Two prime approaches: global and
local to semi-optimize
Traditional PMO Top down – MRP,
computer aided,
global solution
Scope constrained
Local – Heuristics, Lean
process JIT, Kanban.
Time and budget
constrained
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Kanban, Conwip and Critical chain
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Project profits (x1,000,000 $) based
on resources
Project/ Yellow
#Resource
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Mint Green
Lilac
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PMO is best
Positioned to link
Governance
to
Agility
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Use resource
Allocation that
actually WORKS
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Review - PMO value enablement
Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
effective, streamlined
The Agile
PMO
delivery
reduce waste
Agile Leadership
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Agile Leadership
Is primarily revolving around:
• Collaboration
• Empowerment
• Self management
• Servant leadership
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Agile Leadership
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We must CHANGE!
PMO Command
and Control is
obsolete
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This just in:
Problem we want to solve by this training:
we have noticed that senior stakeholders in
our organization are sometimes hard to
convince in a need and value of proper
project/program governance and overall role
of PMO in delivering business value.
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Take Away
• KPI – document reduction
• KPI – project cancel
• KPI – faster delivery
• KPI – selection Kanban
• KPI – project satisfaction
• KPI – impediment removal
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Increase your Return
from Projects!
Next Agile PMO public
workshops:
9-10th April – Atlanta
15th April – Seattle
18th May – Chicago/Boston
Thank You
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