From PMO to VMO

2 Defining an Agile Process

Quite often in the early stages of agile adoption, agile teams are able to be successful because they don’t have to comply with a lot of burdensome and stifling rules. In fact, using an initial controlled, pilot team approach that is outside of traditional governance is one that has been successful over decades at organizations ranging from Capital One, PayPal, Salesforce, Nike, Spotify, American Express, and the National Geographic Society to the U.S. Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If we want to institutionalize agile methods, however, a key job of the Agile VMO is to help develop ...