Course Overview
As agile delivery methods gain popularity at Portfolio, Program and Project Team levels in all sizes of organisations, the relevance of a traditional PMO has been called into question. However, consider the fundamental role of a PMO: to protect the investments that an organisation makes in strategic initiatives and projects to ensure the best possible value/outcomes are achieved. This is done via a series of frameworks and controls that provide appropriate rigour for the delivery method applied and ultimately provide input into key decision-making by executives.
Most organisations use a blend of Predictive (e.g. Waterfall) and Agile (e.g. Scrum, SAFe®) approaches to deliver initiatives. Today’s PMO must therefore be able to support a range of delivery approaches and will need to strike the right balance between having a clear governance structure and oversight, and allowing teams the flexibility to innovate, with a consistency of language.
SAFe is a registered trademark of Scaled Agile, Inc
Practitioners who will benefit from this course include:
- PMO Directors / Managers (e.g. GPMO, EPMO, CoE, etc.)
- PMO Practitioners - such as Governance Managers and Analysts
- Portfolio and Program Managers who perform PMO-type functions
- Coordinators and Reporting Analysts in a PMO environment