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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

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Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO. In this article, we will learn about PMOs as organizational structures, about various types of PMOs, and about traditional roles within a PMO. PMO Definition. As noted in the definition, a PMO is an organizational structure. Types of PMOs.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

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Often, this is through its Project, Program, or Portfolio Management Office (PMO). What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. Typical agile frameworks do not include a clearly defined risk owner or risk manager.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO. I mean, everybody’s like very familiar with Agile and Scrum and things like that but I wouldn’t call them agile coaches per se.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

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An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. While working with an iteration-based Lean-Agile approach, an increment can be achieved on a cadence or on-demand.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

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You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. Remember if we talk about Scrum, we talk about chickens and pigs and the ability to, Hey look, you’ve got to listen on the sidelines, the team needs to come up with that and then they’ll engage you as they need to. Did you want to save? None of that.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Sometimes, this technique is also called 'Scrum Poker'. The goal of the PMO is to establish standards, track performance, and optimize processes to meet the organization's goals more efficiently.