How to view the role of PMO in agile organizations?

In most organizations ,PMO It's a control body . It guides the specification of the project team 、 Templates and processes . at present , Most of the IT The organization is agile . Agility has changed the way people work , It's not just the development department , And there are other departments , for example HR、 Finance and PMO etc. .

Nick Oostvogels,SkyCoach The company's project manager and agile coach , Recently published in agile organization PMO New role articles .Nick say , Organizational agility has brought some impacts , For example, the business unit has deviation 、 Portfolio planning does not meet the agile pace , And the PMO doesn't know how to support agile teams .
A classic PMO When you suddenly have to deal with agile projects, you behave the same way . They'll explain PO perhaps Scrum Need to prepare a monthly project plan . To do this , They need to fill in their project plan in the enterprise tool , The baseline is now , And projects can be managed in great detail . When PO perhaps SM Explain that they don't have a project plan , But they have a priority product to-do list ,PMO Will gently but firmly ask them to turn it into a Gantt Chart . In next month's project plan ,PO The Gantt chart will be displayed , And will slowly change his behavior .
Charles G. “Chuck” Cobb, Enterprise Agile Project Manager , Consultant and author , Recently on agile PMO His character shared his views . He said , In the agile community, many people will say that there is no... In agile and lean environments PMO Role , because PMO The overall concept of is inconsistent with agile . The whole idea is based on stereotypes PMO role , namely PMO In the selection and management of projects and the implementation of project sets , Mainly related to the control and implementation of strict waterfall strategy . He mentioned , In an agile environment ,PMO It is more a role of consultant and consultant than a controlling role .
The main responsibility of providing project direction change in the project is more on the business side represented by the product owner , And they are more closely coupled with the business side , Pay more attention to providing business value , Instead of simply managing project cost and schedule .
Nick Mentioned in agile organizations ,PMO The following measures need to be followed ：
requirement PO Be the main project driver —— What is most important to the project ? Do we have a minimum range of planned releases ?
requirement PO Be responsible for product handling matters —— Whether the product agent is healthy , Have you made an estimate , Is there a priority ?
Provide PO Agile release plan (Release Planning) Tools ——PO It should be able to draw the release ignition diagram according to the product agent . This will give him ( And the project plan ) A good preview of the project evaluation , Iteration after iteration , And promote agile thinking , Release product increments until sufficient business value is achieved .
Peter Schmidt,ESI International Customer service VP, In his InfoQ In the blog, I share the experience of PMO The role of . He said PMO Can play an important role in agile planning . In terms of planning ,PMO Participate heavily in the top three levels of Agile Projects ( Strategy 、 Project portfolio and project plan ), The project team itself provides the release 、 Iterations and the basics of daily planning . In this paper, the source ：http://www.pmcollege.com.cn