Software Process And Measurement Cast

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 127! In this week’s Software Process and Measurement Cast I feature the first part of my essay titled, Agile is from Venus and PMOs from Mars.  I also have news from MAIN brought to us by Manfred Bundschuh. The essay begins . . . Over the past few years I have spent time with many organizations that been struggling with the role of PMOs in their organization as they transitioned to agile. There are a couple of important words in the last sentence.  The first critical word is struggling, struggling is important because many PMO's have become more administrative and control oriented rather than being coaches and leaders.  Agile focuses on self organization rather than control functions.  Also I suggest that combining the roles of administration and control with coaching and leading creates conflict because the goals of these roles are different.  It gets even more difficult and stressful when project managers and administrators are asked to change roles that