PMO

Renee and Craig are at Agile2019 in Washington, DC and catch up with Sanjiv Augustine, author of “Managing Agile Projects” and “Scaling Agile” and founder and CEO of Lithespeed:

Craig’s InfoQ interview with Sanjiv
“Leadership is about managing change while management is about managing complexity… you need to be both”
Lithespeed = flexible speed
“Reinventing Organisations” by Frederick Laloux and the Morningstar model
The Agile community is excited about the benefits of the teal level but not the responsibility
Business Agility Sparks – need to shift left from IT to the business and shift right to DevOps and shift up into leadership
What makes you successful at the executive level is working with others
Agile Value Management Office (VMO) is a cross functional leadership team that manages the flow of work from end to end
PMO is more oriented towards best practices process, whereas…

Craig is as LAST Conference in Canberra and with guest co-host (and co-founder of LAST) Craig Brown they talk to Kerrie Campbell, the CIO at Flinders University in Adelaide and they talk (amongst some unscheduled cup stacking) about:

LAST Keynote talk “Flinders University Transformation“
Leadership through seeding rather than driving by changing language, building mindset and removing impediments
Open the kimono and leaders do Agile by example and muddle through it publicly
Story telling to move through the change
Eliminating the PMO – don’t need a middle man to get in between the IT and business to slow you down and sort out the projects if the team is cross skilled and cross facilitating
Disrupted finance through asking for a five year envelope of money and working and modelling the work that is ready to be done
Heart of Agile takes the complexity out of Agile –…

Craig Smith