Lean-Agile PMO
Upcoming Courses
The Lean-Agile PMO
Transform Your PMO with Agile! This course is tailored to enable PMOs and senior change stakeholders to guide your organisation through the transition to agile working methods. We will dive deep into key agile frameworks, agile metrics, and essential governance changes to ensure a smooth and effective transformation.
Unlock the Power of a Hybrid Portfolio! The Lean-Agile PMO Course empowers participants to adapt their PMO operating model to manage a hybrid portfolio of agile and traditional activities seamlessly. Learn the importance of evolving governance practices, developing a robust metrics strategy, and refining risk management and reporting for agile and traditional projects.
Master Agile Frameworks and Enhance Project Delivery! As many PMOs oversee the project delivery framework, this course highlights the critical elements of mainstream agile frameworks and their applicability. Gain insights into an agile practice maturity model and toolkit designed to support agile teams as they grow and gain experience in agile methodologies.
Learning Approach:
Classroom & Virtual Classroom
Duration:
2 days
Virtual Course Timings:
9am to 4pm UK time each day
Price:
Virtual Classroom – £1150 + VAT
Looking to bring the Lean-Agile PMO course in-house? Get in touch here!
This open two-day interactive course, delivered using virtual classroom technology or in a traditional classroom is designed for Senior PMO Managers, PMO Leads, PMO Analysts, and Heads of Change, who wish to introduce a Lean-Agile PMO concept. Alternatively, this course can be tailored to the needs of a single customer when it can be used as a component of a transformation to Agile.
Virtual classroom training takes place with a live instructor throughout the online course and you will be learning alongside other virtual learners – you’ll be able to see and hear them too!
All you need for virtual classroom training is a decent broadband connection, a webcam and a microphone [Test your setup here]
You’ll receive:
- PMO Learning Delegate Workbook
Classroom courses can be held for organisations looking to run the course In-House. Get in touch here.
Book Your Course
Virtual classroom £1150 + VAT (includes printed delegate workbook)
The Lean-Agile Concept
Some PMOs have difficulty in defining the organisational value they create. The PMO may be seen as predominantly a reporting or administration function. This is a course that outlines a design for a PMO using Lean and Agile concepts. The design is focused on the delivery of maximum value to the PMO’s customers (stakeholders) with as little wasted effort as possible. It facilitates project execution such that wasted project effort is also minimised. It defines a service ethos and a mechanism for continuous improvement.
Using Agile techniques, the PMO provides a project ecosystem and collaborative culture such that projects are demonstrably delivered as fast as possible, irrespective of delivery methodology, with “just enough” governance so that risks are well managed and success is assured. The Lean-Agile PMO concept shifts the emphasis of the function from simply reporting to providing essential services and preventing activities from going wrong.
The course outlines the process and capability changes needed to up-shift the PMO function providing a purposeful governance framework for both agile and traditional projects and programmes. This framework outlines the agile PMO events and ceremonies. It includes agile risk management, Red-Amber-Green Status analysis, agile checkpoints, and status reporting.
Course Objectives
The course outlines the principles of agile, the role of the PMO in an organisation transitioning to agile and the changes needed to the PMO Operating Model. Following this course, participants will:
- Understand how to support a hybrid portfolio of Agile and Traditional Projects.
- Understand the differences and use of the various Agile Frameworks.
- Know how to revise your Project and Programme Methodologies for Agile.
- Understand Agile Governance, Risk Management, Roles and Reporting
- Recognise the need for a PMO metrics strategy
Course Overview
Over the course of two days, learners will cover:
Transform Your PMO with Agile:
- Learn how to transform your PMO to support agile methodologies, ensuring a smooth and effective transition.
Hybrid Portfolio Management:
- Understand how to manage a hybrid portfolio that includes agile, traditional and continuous development activities, and adapt the PMO operating model accordingly.
Master Agile Frameworks:
- Gain insights into mainstream agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, and learn how to apply them to enhance project delivery.
PMO Metrics Strategy:
- Develop a robust metrics strategy to measure the performance of your PMO, the effectiveness of your project methodology and agile team metrics.
Governance Changes:
- Learn the importance of evolving governance practices to support agile methodologies and explore strategies for adapting governance.
Risk Management and Reporting:
- Adapt risk management and reporting strategies for agile projects, balancing them with traditional project management practices
Agile Practice Maturity Model:
- Understand the use of an agile practice maturity model and use a toolkit designed to support agile teams as they grow and gain experience
After the Course
After the course, learners will have:
- Gained an understanding of how a PMO functions to support both agile and traditional projects and programmes.
- Became familiar with the roles within agile teams and their contributions to programmes and projects.
- Developed an understanding of the project-to-product concept and the metrics used to evaluate value-stream performance.
- Learned how metrics are applied in planning, analysis, and reporting of agile activities.
What Next?
If you’ve completed the Lean-Agile PMO course, then there are a few ways you can continue your training.
If you want to look at other specialist courses then you can look at Assurance for PMO Professionals or Benefits Management and the Role of the PMO.
If you want to look at certification courses we have the Essentials suite, P3O® certifications and Management of Portfolios®.
If you want something more specific or bespoke for your organisation, contact us today.