Agile PMO

Australia’s First Chief Project Officer and Other Stories

The story of Telstra’s PMO has everything – there’s the first Chief Project Officer role, then there’s the ePMO and portfolio approach (“to advance project management to improve business value”). There are key focus areas on capability, assurance, community, project sponsorship, business case, benefits, advice and intervention – all those areas PMOs should strive to deliver and support.
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PMO Conference 2022 \\ A War on Agile Methods – How can a PMO Choose Between 100 Agile Frameworks? – Henny Portman

If you're struggling to understand what all these different Agile, agile, agility, iterative, adaptive, scaled, lean approaches are - this is a session that goes some way to helping you to make sense of it all! During this session Henny Portman builds up his Bird's eye view on the agile forest. An overview in which he distinguishes between team, engineering, program, temporary, permanent, portfolio and culture frameworks.
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Hybrid Reporting – Panel Session

In this panel session, we ask four members about their experiences and insights into hybrid reporting - one of the challenges that PMOs face is trying to get that one portfolio view when projects are being delivered by Agile-led (e.g., SCRUM), traditional-led (waterfall) and even continuous delivery such as product management.
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Hybrid Delivery and the PMO

In this session we take a look at one of the main challenge areas for PMOs right now - how to support hybrid delivery. It was an interactive session to help us really understand what the challenge is - and what the PMO can do to overcome the issues and really support their organisations going forward. Sign in to read more about supporting Agile and Waterfall projects - to balance our portfolios - or is it even about projects anymore.
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Agile PMO – Tooling

In this session, Matthew was joined by another lodger, Nicole Reilly. Together they talked about the different Agile related tools that are available and what the PMO needs to know. There are literally hundreds of different tools out there that are used by Agile teams. There are also many different options to extract data which is then used by management teams to understand what progress is being made and what decisions and actions are needed to be taken.
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