The Agile PMO
Value-driven
Agile Project Management
Office
PMI Maine, 17th September 2015
Michael Nir
President Sapir Consulting US
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Michael Nir
• President @ Sapir Consulting US LLC
• M.Sc. Engineering, PMP®, SAFe™ accredited
• 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
m.nir@sapir-cs.com
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
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;
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
It just doesn’t
Work
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Do you Realize Value from your PMO?
• 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…
TRICKY QUESTIONS 
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Truly – PMOs don’t Deliver
RESEARCH
Gartner 2012
ESI 2013
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Truly – PMOs don’t Deliver -2
STATE OF PMOs 2015
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
>> The PMO Challenge: 72 percent of respondents
claimed the PMO had been challenged by senior
management. The top two were
• lack of perceived value (44%);
• lack of project/program maturity in the
organization (41%)
50%
Failures
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
How did we get here?
THE STORY OF PETE
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The PMO Evolution
Build me a
PMO worthy
of Maine-
tech!
Yes
Master
THE STORY OF PETE
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The First Steps…
What to do?
Maybe some
research?
Analysis of Current
state?
Interviews?
I know…
THE STORY OF PETE
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
I need a
Home
The Gap Analysis – Stakeholders
Worthy PMO
Strategic
Alignment
No Tools
No Tools
Training
Training
No Tools No Process
LEAD EXPECTATIONS
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Gap Analysis – Executives
Worthy PMO
Strategic
Alignment
I need Reports!
Better Control!
A methodology
NOW
LEAD EXPECTATIONS
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
PMOs Lose Focus – Waste Money
I need a
Staff
Pay me
a Lot!
I can
help
Maybe
Select
Tools
Training
Need
Assessment?
Support
the PMs
New
Reports
and
Templates
PMBOK?
PLC
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Discuss with the person next
What
Would
You Do?
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Typical next steps
PMO FAILURES
• The tactical PMO
• The process PMO
• The chocking PMO
• The tools PMO
50%
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Escaping from Process Alcatraz
PROCESS PMO
• ‘The bureaucracy is
expanding to meet the
needs of the expanding
bureaucracy’ (O. Wilde.)The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Focusing on Tools not on Value
TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS
Starting with
tools -
Eternalizes
the wrong
WOW
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
We can do
Better!
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
A centralized portfolio
management entity that enables
faster delivery of products.
It has various roles and
responsibilities based on the
organization structure, the Agile
maturity and the specific industry.
Agile PMO Value Enablement
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile
PMO
 Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
 Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
 Effective, streamlined
delivery
reduce waste
 Agile Leadership
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile
PMO
 Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
 Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
 Effective, streamlined
delivery
reduce waste
 Agile Leadership
Agile PMO Value Enablement
Toyota Defined 7 Wastes
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Waste in Project Management
Manufacturing Project Management
Transport Redundant or unnecessary interfaces
Inventory Missing features or gold-plated features
Motion Task switching
Waiting Waiting time
Over Production Sloppy requirements
Over Processing Project bureaucracy
Defects 2nd or more iterations and revisions
Reduce Waste – Process and Project
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
PMO is best
positioned to
remove waste of
project and process
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Remove
Document Waste
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Remove
Project Scope
Waste
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
How Much???
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Adding Value by Doing Less
The 25/25 Rule: Achieving More by
Doing Less
Boaz Ronen Tel Aviv University Faculty of Management
Thomas G . Lechler Stevens Institute of Technology
Edward A . Stohr Stevens Institute
of Technology
Agile
PMO
Application: Kanban the Waterfall
BEST PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
• Cancel projects
• Prioritize projects
• Limit projects in queue
• Limit projects in process
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Remember:
when Everything
is Important
Nothing is
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Write yourself a note
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile
PMO
 Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
 Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
 effective, streamlined
delivery
reduce waste
 Agile Leadership
Agile PMO Value Enablement
SAFe™ - Scaled Agile
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
SAFe® Selection and Prioritization –
Kanban Approach
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Agile
PMO
PMO is best
positioned to
Kanban the Selection
and Prioritization
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Create Kanban
Buckets for
selection
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Write yourself a note
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile
PMO
 Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
 Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
 effective, streamlined
delivery
reduce waste
 Agile Leadership
Agile PMO Value Enablement
Traditional PMO -
Top down – MRP,
computer aided,
global solution
Scope constrained
Local – Heuristics, Lean
process JIT, Kanban.
Time and budget
constrained
Two Prime Approaches: Global and
Local to semi-optimize
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Kanban, Conwip and Critical chain
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Project profits (x1,000,000 $)
Project/
#Resource
Yellow Orange Mint Green Lilac Purple Crimson Red
0 (7) (14) (9) (11) (5) (43) (5) (19)
1-3 (4) (8) (3) (5) 0 (25) (1) (14)
4 (1) (4) 0 (1) 0 (10) 0 (12)
5 2 (1) 0 0 5 (7) 1 (10)
6 7 4 0 2 0 (5) 1 (9)
7 4 5 3 3 0 (3) 1 (8)
8-9 9 6 6 4 0 (2) 2 (8)
10 6 11 7 7 0 0 3 (4)
11 4 7 8 9 3 1 4 0
12 2 5 13 10 6 1 3 0
13-14 0 2 8 11 7 5 5 4
15 0 0 4 14 14 7 6 6
16-17 0 0 2 4 7 9 16 4
18+ 0 (3) 0 0 (3) (3) (5) (4)
Agile
PMO
PMO is best
Positioned to link
Governance
to
Agility
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Use resource
Allocation that
actually WORKS
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Write yourself a note
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile
PMO
 Selection and prioritization
Chose the valuable projects
 Resource allocation
Control/limit the mix
 effective, streamlined
delivery
reduce waste
 Agile Leadership
Agile PMO Value Enablement
Agile Leadership
Is primarily about:
• Collaboration
• Empowerment
• Self management
• Servant leadership
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Agile Leadership
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
We’re not the Bad Guys  HUG
AGILE PMO - A PARADIGM SHIFT
http://www.pmhut.com/agile-pmo-a-new-hope
• Perhaps the MOST difficult transformation required by the PMO!
• From emphasis on management to leadership
We must CHANGE!
PMO Command
and Control is
obsolete
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
50%
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
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.
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
The Agile PMO
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
A centralized portfolio
management entity that enables
faster delivery of products.
It has various roles and
responsibilities based on the
organization structure, the Agile
maturity and the specific industry.
Write yourself a note
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
How to Inspire the Change?
• KPI – document reduction
• KPI – project cancel
• KPI – faster delivery
• KPI – selection Kanban
• KPI – project satisfaction
• KPI – impediment removal
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Thank You
Increase your Return
from Projects!
The Agile PMO – great results NOW
Coming Next :
http://sapir-cs.com/michael-nir/

Michael Nir The Agile PMO keynote

  • 1.
    The Agile PMO Value-driven AgileProject Management Office PMI Maine, 17th September 2015 Michael Nir President Sapir Consulting US The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 2.
    Michael Nir • President@ Sapir Consulting US LLC • M.Sc. Engineering, PMP®, SAFe™ accredited • 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 m.nir@sapir-cs.com The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 3.
    Starting with theend 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; The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 4.
    It just doesn’t Work TheAgile PMO – great results NOW
  • 5.
    Do you RealizeValue from your PMO? • 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… TRICKY QUESTIONS  The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 6.
    Truly – PMOsdon’t Deliver RESEARCH Gartner 2012 ESI 2013 The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 7.
    Truly – PMOsdon’t Deliver -2 STATE OF PMOs 2015 The Agile PMO – great results NOW >> The PMO Challenge: 72 percent of respondents claimed the PMO had been challenged by senior management. The top two were • lack of perceived value (44%); • lack of project/program maturity in the organization (41%)
  • 8.
    50% Failures The Agile PMO– great results NOW
  • 9.
    How did weget here? THE STORY OF PETE The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 10.
    The PMO Evolution Buildme a PMO worthy of Maine- tech! Yes Master THE STORY OF PETE The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 11.
    The First Steps… Whatto do? Maybe some research? Analysis of Current state? Interviews? I know… THE STORY OF PETE The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 12.
    I need a Home TheGap Analysis – Stakeholders Worthy PMO Strategic Alignment No Tools No Tools Training Training No Tools No Process LEAD EXPECTATIONS The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 13.
    The Gap Analysis– Executives Worthy PMO Strategic Alignment I need Reports! Better Control! A methodology NOW LEAD EXPECTATIONS The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 14.
    PMOs Lose Focus– Waste Money I need a Staff Pay me a Lot! I can help Maybe Select Tools Training Need Assessment? Support the PMs New Reports and Templates PMBOK? PLC The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 15.
    Discuss with theperson next What Would You Do? The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 16.
    The Typical nextsteps PMO FAILURES • The tactical PMO • The process PMO • The chocking PMO • The tools PMO 50% The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 17.
    Escaping from ProcessAlcatraz PROCESS PMO • ‘The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy’ (O. Wilde.)The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 18.
    Focusing on Toolsnot on Value TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS Starting with tools - Eternalizes the wrong WOW The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 19.
    We can do Better! TheAgile PMO – great results NOW
  • 20.
    The Agile PMO TheAgile PMO – great results NOW A centralized portfolio management entity that enables faster delivery of products. It has various roles and responsibilities based on the organization structure, the Agile maturity and the specific industry.
  • 21.
    Agile PMO ValueEnablement The Agile PMO – great results NOW The Agile PMO  Selection and prioritization Chose the valuable projects  Resource allocation Control/limit the mix  Effective, streamlined delivery reduce waste  Agile Leadership
  • 22.
    The Agile PMO– great results NOW The Agile PMO  Selection and prioritization Chose the valuable projects  Resource allocation Control/limit the mix  Effective, streamlined delivery reduce waste  Agile Leadership Agile PMO Value Enablement
  • 23.
    Toyota Defined 7Wastes The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 24.
    Waste in ProjectManagement Manufacturing Project Management Transport Redundant or unnecessary interfaces Inventory Missing features or gold-plated features Motion Task switching Waiting Waiting time Over Production Sloppy requirements Over Processing Project bureaucracy Defects 2nd or more iterations and revisions
  • 25.
    Reduce Waste –Process and Project The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 26.
    PMO is best positionedto remove waste of project and process The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 27.
    Remove Document Waste The AgilePMO – great results NOW
  • 28.
    Remove Project Scope Waste The AgilePMO – great results NOW
  • 29.
    How Much??? The AgilePMO – great results NOW Adding Value by Doing Less The 25/25 Rule: Achieving More by Doing Less Boaz Ronen Tel Aviv University Faculty of Management Thomas G . Lechler Stevens Institute of Technology Edward A . Stohr Stevens Institute of Technology Agile PMO
  • 30.
    Application: Kanban theWaterfall BEST PRACTICE EXPERIENCE • Cancel projects • Prioritize projects • Limit projects in queue • Limit projects in process The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 31.
    Remember: when Everything is Important Nothingis The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 32.
    Write yourself anote The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 33.
    The Agile PMO– great results NOW The Agile PMO  Selection and prioritization Chose the valuable projects  Resource allocation Control/limit the mix  effective, streamlined delivery reduce waste  Agile Leadership Agile PMO Value Enablement
  • 34.
    SAFe™ - ScaledAgile The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 35.
    SAFe® Selection andPrioritization – Kanban Approach The Agile PMO – great results NOW Agile PMO
  • 36.
    PMO is best positionedto Kanban the Selection and Prioritization The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 37.
    Create Kanban Buckets for selection TheAgile PMO – great results NOW
  • 38.
    Write yourself anote The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 39.
    The Agile PMO– great results NOW The Agile PMO  Selection and prioritization Chose the valuable projects  Resource allocation Control/limit the mix  effective, streamlined delivery reduce waste  Agile Leadership Agile PMO Value Enablement
  • 40.
    Traditional PMO - Topdown – MRP, computer aided, global solution Scope constrained Local – Heuristics, Lean process JIT, Kanban. Time and budget constrained Two Prime Approaches: Global and Local to semi-optimize The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 41.
    Kanban, Conwip andCritical chain The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 42.
    The Agile PMO– great results NOW Project profits (x1,000,000 $) Project/ #Resource Yellow Orange Mint Green Lilac Purple Crimson Red 0 (7) (14) (9) (11) (5) (43) (5) (19) 1-3 (4) (8) (3) (5) 0 (25) (1) (14) 4 (1) (4) 0 (1) 0 (10) 0 (12) 5 2 (1) 0 0 5 (7) 1 (10) 6 7 4 0 2 0 (5) 1 (9) 7 4 5 3 3 0 (3) 1 (8) 8-9 9 6 6 4 0 (2) 2 (8) 10 6 11 7 7 0 0 3 (4) 11 4 7 8 9 3 1 4 0 12 2 5 13 10 6 1 3 0 13-14 0 2 8 11 7 5 5 4 15 0 0 4 14 14 7 6 6 16-17 0 0 2 4 7 9 16 4 18+ 0 (3) 0 0 (3) (3) (5) (4) Agile PMO
  • 43.
    PMO is best Positionedto link Governance to Agility The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 44.
    Use resource Allocation that actuallyWORKS The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 45.
    Write yourself anote The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 46.
    The Agile PMO– great results NOW The Agile PMO  Selection and prioritization Chose the valuable projects  Resource allocation Control/limit the mix  effective, streamlined delivery reduce waste  Agile Leadership Agile PMO Value Enablement
  • 47.
    Agile Leadership Is primarilyabout: • Collaboration • Empowerment • Self management • Servant leadership The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 48.
    Agile Leadership The AgilePMO – great results NOW
  • 49.
    We’re not theBad Guys  HUG AGILE PMO - A PARADIGM SHIFT http://www.pmhut.com/agile-pmo-a-new-hope • Perhaps the MOST difficult transformation required by the PMO! • From emphasis on management to leadership
  • 50.
    We must CHANGE! PMOCommand and Control is obsolete The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 51.
    50% The Agile PMO– great results NOW
  • 52.
    This just in: Problemwe 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. The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 53.
    The Agile PMO TheAgile PMO – great results NOW A centralized portfolio management entity that enables faster delivery of products. It has various roles and responsibilities based on the organization structure, the Agile maturity and the specific industry.
  • 54.
    Write yourself anote The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 55.
    How to Inspirethe Change? • KPI – document reduction • KPI – project cancel • KPI – faster delivery • KPI – selection Kanban • KPI – project satisfaction • KPI – impediment removal The Agile PMO – great results NOW
  • 56.
    Thank You Increase yourReturn from Projects! The Agile PMO – great results NOW Coming Next : http://sapir-cs.com/michael-nir/