The Agile Value Management Office (Agile VMO®) is a cross functional leadership team that manages the flow of work from end to end. The VMO is a flexible organizational construct to implement lean portfolio management and support adaptive governance.
Lean portfolio management ensures that all work in a product or service portfolio is prioritized and aligned to business outcomes, and that business value is constantly delivered, tracked and measured across the entire organization. Adaptive governance ensures that risk, legal, audit and security concerns are addressed in an integrated manner.
Why adopt the Agile VMO? Here are the top 5 reasons:
- The Agile VMO® enables business agility through lean portfolio management and adaptive governance, aligning technology initiatives with business goals.
- By transitioning from a rigid legacy organizational model to a fast and resilient adaptive operating model, the Agile VMO® helps organizations thrive in today's volatile and uncertain business environments.
- The Agile VMO® supports the reorganization of teams along value streams, increasing communication and enabling end-to-end flow.
- The Agile VMO® ensures that all work in a product or service portfolio is prioritized, and that business value is constantly delivered, tracked, and measured across the entire organization.
- The Agile VMO® leverages a diverse skill set, including Customer Journeys, Process Optimization, Ways of Working and Agile methods, to ensure that the simplest thing possible is done well, without fear of refactoring, as the cost of refactoring is lower than the cost of waste.
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AGILE VMO® COPilot
The Agile VMO Copilot stands as a pivotal resource for organizations navigating the complexities of Lean Portfolio Management and Adaptive Governance, facilitating a seamless transition towards enhanced strategic, portfolio, and team agility. Expertly merging best practices and insights from renowned Agile frameworks and methodologies, it offers tailored advice to boost organizational adaptive capabilities.
Agile VMO Services include:
Agile VMO Certified Training
Join the OG Agile VMO® Revolution! As the original creators of the Agile VMO and the safe keepers of its flame, we're excited to offer focused training, certification and train-the-trainer via LitheSpeed's Agile Leadership Academy:
- Join our Certified Agile VMO Practitioner course. Evolve your mastery of agile ways of working beyond the team level and lead your organization in adapting to a fast-changing environment.
- Enroll for our Certified ALA Trainer course. Train, certify and enable other organizational leaders to deploy Agile VMOs, and to lead the delivery of customer value. Be the thought leader and catalyst for change in your organization.
Executive Orientation
The Agile VMO Executive Orientation introduces senior leaders to the Agile VMO construct, as well as their role in driving a successful agile transformation led by the VMO. This brief session focuses on the benefits, mindset and approach to adopting an Agile VMO, and the organizational changes that accompany the adoption.
Self-Led Training
Join LitheSpeed business agility experts to learn how organizations are finding a new path to success where middle management are valued leaders in the age of business agility with the Agile Value Management Office (VMO).
PMO TO VMO DISCOVERY WORKSHOP
This interactive discovery session assesses readiness and current state as you move toward VMO setup and implementation.
In this guided discovery session, your group will first align on the reasons behind shifting from a project to product model. Next, they will brainstorm and collaborate to create a Customer Profile identifying current project and program management jobs, as well as pains and potential gains to be derived from the transition. Finally, they will create a Value Map, clearly identifying specific services for the Agile VMO, along with pain relievers that address the pains, and gain creators that tap into potential gains.
Our goal will be to create a crosswalk from PMO to VMO, addressing specifics such as:
- Project Portfolio Tracking using a Portfolio Kanban
- Examination of portfolio management and processes to improve throughput and financial results
- Group Analysis typical delivery times, bottlenecks, inventory buildups, handoffs, and other inefficiencies
- Overall PMO to Agile VMO
- Governance alignment with incremental agile processes
AGILE VMO LAUNCH WORKSHOP
This workshop prepares your organization and leaders to begin a formal transition from a project to product model.
As your organization transitions from the project to the product operating model, it is critical that middle managers understand how to successfully make and help lead that transition. The VMO Launch workshop is the initial step toward applying the Value Management concepts assessed in the VMO Discovery workshop.
We typically elaborate several key concepts, including:
- Lean Business Case
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Value Streams Setup
- Fixed Funding by Value Stream
- Portfolio Prioritization with Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF)
- Big Room Planning
LitheSpeed’s Agile Executive Management Consultants will provide support to help you rapidly launch your Agile VMO. Support typically includes:
- Executive coaching
- Organizational transformation and change management strategy
- Program metrics design and implementation
- Policy and governance guidance
- Organizational structural recommendations
- Agile roles & responsibilities & issues related to HR
- Agile-appropriate methods of funding, budgeting, and finance
- Agile program leadership and scaling expertise
- Program portfolio management improvement
- Release planning facilitation at the program level
- Program level estimation, planning, and tracking
- Work intake, prioritization, and sequencing methods
- Multi-team planning and integration
Successful agile transformations hinge very heavily on the ability to change the underlying system for middle management. This package ensures you get the essential tools to begin systemic organizational change and pivot to strategic / business agility.
