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Which Agile Framework – Does it Matter? The Implications for a PMO
All scaling frameworks share some common patterns: this interactive PMO Flashmob session explores the mysteries of Agile at Scale!
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Agile PMO – Is the PMO Equipped to Support Traditional and Agile Projects?
The question for the PMO community is, “do you understand what additional skills and competencies you need to be equipped with?”
Many of the skills you have are still required, but some will need further honing or developed from scratch.
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Retrospectives. We’re hearing a lot about this part of Agile based project and product development.
It’s one of the main events or ceremonies in SCRUM – or perhaps you might just think of it as another name for a lesson learnt?
In this session, John McIntyre and the team at Ticketmaster showed us the ropes and helped us to find out about:
What is a retrospective and does the PMO get involved in them?
How are they planned and facilitated? If at all?
What happens with the information or outputs from a retrospective?
Is there anything the PMO can be doing to help /support retrospectives?
And what are the top tips for the PMO to take away and use in their business and with their teams tomorrow?
Here we share the video from the session and the presentation
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On the 17th May, I attended my first PMO Flashmob, the event on this occasion was more specifically known as PMO Serious Play, held in Manchester.
The idea behind this session is to learn and explore the mindsets and behaviours of the PMO supporting Agile based projects and programmes through playing with Lego.
Upon arrival, at the event, I received a warm welcome and introductions all round. There was also a vast selection of drinks available including tea/coffee, orange juice, coke and even wine and beer! All included in the session.
Before getting called through to our training room there was a chance to talk and network with others attending the course. This helped me get comfortable with the people I was with, something that I thought was important before a creative session like this.
The first thing I noticed was how different everybody’s background in PMO was. There was also a wide range of industries represented by charities, law firms, and public sector. It was really interesting finding out how they operated their PMO within their industry.
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