Summary: "Did she really say PMO? Isn't that a taboo topic nowadays, shunned by agilists everywhere?" and/or "I run/work in a PMO, what's my (or my team's) future in this agile world? Is it just to become a Scrum Master or Agile Coach?" If these are some of the questions that came to your mind when reading the title, please join me in this presentation where I share my observations, learnings, approaches, and thoughts on how a PMO needs to evolve to support and enable business agility and how project management to continue to provide value. You'll learn about my personal journey running a Waterfall PMO and how we needed to evolve in order to support transformations to agile ways of working and other insights from my 18 years of working in the project management space, including leading teams of high-performing project managers. What Your Will Learn: Aha moments and key takeaways from evolving a waterfall PMO to one supporting and enabling business agility New expectations for a PMO and why it's not a one-size fit all model Why a hybrid approach can be beneficial New project management tactics, including NoEstimates and NoProject movements How the PMO can be a critical factor and enabler for agile adoption and organizational/enterprise support PMI PDU Category: Technical – 1 PDU Activity Code: IPC2018-S05
