PMOs, PMBOKers and Agilistas

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Applying 30 years of domestic and international experience in IT from both the customer and provider side, Mark Perry has spent the past decade focused on developing and supporting project management offices. Here, the founder of BOT International and director of PMO Services for gantthead shares his perspective on PMOs and Scrum.

Mark Perry is a recognized servant-leader in the PMO domain. After a 20-year career with IBM holding various management positions in the United States and Asia, he founded BOT International 10 years ago. The boutique firm specializes in PMO setup, and he continues today as its senior vice president of operations.

During the past decade, Perry has witnessed tremendous advances of PMOs spanning companies, lines of businesses, and departments of all shapes and sizes. Many of his PMO insights are contained in his book “Business Driven PMO Setup: Practical Insights, Techniques and Case Examples for Ensuring Success” as well as his podcasts, The PMO Podcast, and his gantthead blog, PMO Setup T3 — Tips, Tools and Techniques.

ProjectsAtWork tapped his knowledge to ask about the intersection of PMOs and Scrum.

By nature, do PMOs conflict with Scrum?

Good PMOs do not conflict with Scrum or any other best practices, techniques or set of principles that help organizations, teams and individuals exhibit good capabilities and …

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