The document discusses the concept of a lean project management office (PMO). It introduces an assessment model for evaluating projects across three dimensions: people, process, and product. Project teams take a survey to plot their project on each dimension and discuss the results. The goal is to identify areas for improvement and make projects more iterative by building, measuring, and learning.

1. Lean PMO
Oxymoron or Possible?
Mike Edwards
SDEC 2012
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2. Which resembles your
projects?
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3. Agenda
• Introduction to Lean
• Step through the assessment model & take the
assessment
• Interact and share our experiences
• What do the results tell us?
• Next steps!
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4. Introductions!
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5. This is Lean!
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6. Optimizing Eliminating
the whole Waste
This is Lean! High Product
Integrity Value Always
Learning
Team & People Always
Focus Delivering
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7. Why another model?!?
• Iterative approaches produce better outcomes
• Build-Measure-Learn (Eric Ries - Lean Startup)
• Plan-Do-Check-Act (Deming)
• Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (John Boyd)
• Higher value from quick iterations (aka Fail Fast!)
• Need something light weight
• Less costly approach to suit the times
• Experience shows we can learn a lot in one day
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8. Assessment Model
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9. Assessment Model
They’re People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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10. Assessment Model
They’re People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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11. Assessment Model
They’re People People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Process Product
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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12. Assessment Model
They’re People People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Process Product
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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13. People
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14. People
All people impacted by or who
interact with your project
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15. People
Master Leadership Servant
Disempowered Ownership Empowered
Exclusive Collaboration Inclusive
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16. Take the survey!
Answer the People section of the survey
Plot the three items on the chart and connect the dots
Discuss the outcome with your neighbour
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17. Process
Focus on how you use a process
Don’t focus on what process is used
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18. Process
Once Improving Ongoing
Established Process Evolving
Rigid Application Scaled
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19. Take the survey!
Answer the Process section of the survey
Plot the three items on the chart and connect the dots
Discuss the outcome with your neighbour
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20. Product
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21. Product
IT organizations only exists to
deliver valuable products & tools to
enable our customers to succeed
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22. Product
Control Response to change Respond
Project Achievement Focus Customer
Defined Product Definition Learned
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23. Take the survey!
Answer the Product section of the survey
Plot the three items on the chart and connect the dots
Discuss the outcome with your neighbour
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24. What do the
results tell us?
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25. Assessment Model
They’re People People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Process Product
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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26. Assessment Model
They’re People People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Process Product
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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27. Assessment Model
They’re People People People’s
not Resources! Satisfaction
Process Product
Business risk,
schedule and cost Quality
pressure
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28. Where to
from here?
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29. What now?
• The assessment is only the start
• Listen to the people
• Everyone must commit to an
improvement program
• Measure outcomes
• For best results - get help!
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30. http://leanpmsolutions.ca/the-lean-pmo-is-possible/
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