LitheSpeed : Lean-Agile PMO Setup

Lean-Agile Program Management Office (PMO) Setup
1 week interactive workshop and training
Request a private workshop today to prepare your enterprise for Agile.

Download PDF TearsheetWho Should Attend/ Prerequisites

Program and Portfolio Managers, Product and Line Managers, Project Managers, Technical Managers, Organization Change Agents.

Bonus Offerings:

16 PDUs toward PMI certification
Managing Agile Projects book
Printed certificate of completion

Offering Overview

Are your projects crawling slowly to completion? Do you see projects being canceled after months or years of investment? This offering is designed to streamline and tune your project portfolio and programs across the organization, so that you can ensure rapid and constant delivery of business value. It helps you determine how to better organize and align your PMO with true business needs, using Lean Six Sigma and Agile Project Management tools and principles, and we actively work with you to accelerate your project delivery timeframes.

Agenda

Days 1-2: Lean-Agile Portfolio Management Training & Workshop

The Challenges of Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management Reality
The Effects of Agile Projects
How Can PMOs Improve Portfolio Performance?

Lean Portfolio Management Principles & Practices

Principle #1: Align Continuously with Customer Value

Communicate strategic intent
Ideate against strategy
Measure business results
Make ranking and selection open and visible
Reprioritize regularly

Principle #2: Manage Project Throughput

Practice Lean project scheduling/Use platform teams
Reduce project inventory/work in process (Track project flow, manage the on-ramp, terminate sick projects, break large projects into smaller projects/increments)

Principle #3: Manage System Constraints

Identify organizational and process constraints (Control the flow of projects, increase efficiency and utilization at the bottleneck, invest to elevate the capacity of the constraint)
Optimize and elevate the constraints

Day 3: Current State PMO Assessment

Assess Current PMO Practices & Structure

PMO Structure & Management
Business case structure
Prioritization models
Resource management practices
Portfolio capacity
Metrics & scorecards
Historical performance trends

Assess Current Portfolio Pipeline

Customer base
Delivery base and delivery capacity
Work in process
Project types
Estimated durations
Major constraints
Sick, delayed projects

Day 4: Lean-Agile PMO Definition

Define New PMO Practices & Structure
- PMO Structure & Management

Business case structure
Prioritization models
Resource management practices
Portfolio capacity
Metrics & scorecards

Streamline Portfolio Pipeline
- Categorize current project requests

Prioritize current project requests
Re-estimate projects as necessary
Create new Line of Business Portfolio Backlogs and Portfolio Release Plan

Day 5: Project Release Planning

Select projects for current portfolio Release from Portfolio Release Plan
Align resources against projects
Assess project interdependencies
Reprioritize projects as necessary
Create Project Backlogs for selected top priority projects
Prepare to launch Sprint planning for selected projects