"Project Management Office" PMO in a Scrum

Successful use of scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living FIVE VALUES 1) Focus (objective), 2) commitment, 3) Respect 4) Openness and 5) Courage.

When an organisation treat scrum as a process to implement, setbacks are inevitable. To succeed with scrum, enterprises have to go through a massive transformation, this is where enterprise project management office (EPMO) will take part in governance, empowering team to thrive and control outcomes.

Scrum PMO serving one team. The main reason for many organisations adopting scrum -the complex projects are no more complex with an Agile Framework “Scrum”, Scrum is about continuous improvement with main roles catered between Scrum master, Product owner and the scrum team. PMO Run scrum-of-scrum meetings with the Scrum Masters and Product Owners of multiple teams and resolve resource contention and priority issues. Also PMO can help implement and spread agile project management across the organization and tremendously influence the people to make effective Scrum transition.

To achieve greater agility in an enterprise or in a portfolio, PMO should be engaged early to influence a smooth Scrum transition to avoid team’s natural defensive reactions to change. Although all organizations are different in project management, each project is unique, effective PMO teams can adhere to global best practices that make them most effective. Scrum PMO keep the business hassle away from the Scrum Team, so that they can get on with the business of being a high-performing team!

When the PMO embraces agility, cultivates an agile culture and equips teams to operate with agile, an organizational strategy is much more likely to become reality. PMO assisting teams by acquiring the appropriate tools and performing any configuration and customization as needed. The approach with right methodology and tailored roadmap to reduce the waste (activities that do not add value are low priority sprints) are the first steps. Also breaking large projects down into smaller pieces that can be delivered more value frequently, allowing the organisation to respond more quickly and effectively to changing business needs.

Scrum PMO also collects the information on how well teams are doing at delivering value and aggressively helping teams to eliminate all wasteful activities and artefacts from its process for gaining a competitive edge. There is more emphasis on the PMO providing business value rather than simply managing project costs and schedules.