From the course: Delivering Results with a Business-focused PMO
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Adaptability, not standardization
From the course: Delivering Results with a Business-focused PMO
Adaptability, not standardization
- For years, businesses have tried to create standard, repeatable processes. Today, that model simply doesn't work. Organizations must adapt to changing circumstances, new opportunities and technological advancements. Traditional PMOs create a standard approach to project delivery, and then enforce that through governance. The hope is if all projects use the same basic approach, project managers and teams will become more effective and efficient. But that's not how business operates today. Agile approaches exist alongside traditional waterfall methods, and hybrid versions that combine the two are becoming common. Projects are approved with the expectation that they will change. In the time between approval and delivery, the world will have moved on. Delivering a need the business doesn't have anymore is just the same as failing to deliver anything. This is what traditional PMOs fail to recognized. They focus on standard approaches, celebrating consistency and penalizing variances as a…
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