The Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance [Audio CD] [Audio CD]

Sanjiv Augustine (Author), Kevin Aguanno (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2009

How should we scale Scrum beyond individual projects? How can PMOs avoid being process police and instead truly support Scrum teams, enable enterprise rollout of Scrum, and sustain long-term Scrum adoption?

Listen to this recording as agile project management expert Kevin Aguanno interviews agile guru Sanjiv Augustine. Learn how industry leaders are scaling Scrum with Agile PMOs that:

* Support and empower agile teams through training, coaching, and organizational obstacle removal
* Track project portfolios using Agile tracking techniques
* Bring lean discipline to project prioritization
* Move towards a stable teams model of resource management

Sanjiv will share principles and techniques for the Agile PMO, and discuss how those concepts are being applied in the industry to scale Scrum through adaptive governance of programs and portfolios.

Learn how to make the most out of your agile transformation by leveraging an agile PMO.

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About the Author

Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed, an innovative Agile and Lean training and consulting company, and an industry-leading agile and lean expert. He is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the author of several publications including, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005). Sanjiv is the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group, and presents regularly at several agile conferences and user groups worldwide, and project management conferences including Project World and Project Summit. Sanjiv has assisted clients in deploying agile and lean methodologies at many institutions large and small. As a management coach and consultant, he has advised in the enterprise rollout and adoption of Scrum at several Fortune 250 companies including Capital One, Nationwide Insurance and T. Rowe Price. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people, coached numerous project teams and trained over 5000 people worldwide.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Multi-Media Publications Inc. (August 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554890519
• ISBN-13: 978-1554890514
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,071,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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