1. How to integrate the PMO process with the Agile Process
a hands-on example from ODB
Jay Keller
VP of IS / VP of PMO / CIO

2. What is the issue
PMO: is looking at the big picture and thinks in Months or at least weeks
Agile team: Is thinking in Sprints of 1 week and does “not care” about Projects
Question: How can you align the two organizations?
Question: How do they interact on a regular basis?
Question: How does the customer profit from this?

3. The overall process
There needs to be an overarching process that guides any project; but what is a project and what is a task?
Project: Longer then 2 days of work or involves several teams
Tasks: something rather simple that can be solved in less then 2 days
Where does the hand-off happen and how?

5. Let’s look at the PMO
How is the pmo organized for the steps 1 – 4 and 9?
How is the control of progress happening for steps 5 – 8 in order to keep the requester posted/updated?
How many tasks are forwarded to An agile team?
Note that the PMO does not own projects, they just manage them!

6. 5-8 1 2 3 4 9

7. How are the Agile teams organized
How are the Backlogs filled?
Who prioritizes the backlog?
How are the sprints filled?
When is something released to production?
How is the handoff to the PMO happening for closure of a project?

8. 1-4 9 5 6 7 8
Done?

9. Latest updates to the process

10. Work in progress… Communication plan needs to be fine tuned
Intake needs to be clearly defined and controlled
Steering committee needs to be more involved in steps 1, 4, 9
Steps 5 – 8: number of parallel projects needs to be lowered (not more then 2 per Agile team at the same time) or they need to be “kicked back” to step 4

11. Questions?
Jay Keller