How the PMO has transformed into COP (Community of Practice)?

1. Guest Speaker: Gaurav Dhooper
Program Manager, RPA & Agile Practitioner at
Genpact, Senior Official at IAPM®, Author & Speaker
Moderator: Leonardo Reyes
Wednesday 17th of June
18.30 Barcelona, Spain Local Time
22.00, India Local Time
Objective:
• To share how the PMO has transformed into
Community of Practice (COP) in Agile world
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How the PMO has transformed
into COP?

2.  Gaurav Dhooper is a strategic thinker, a seasoned program
manager, a certified professional Agile and IT Delivery Leader, an
author and a speaker. Gaurav writes articles on Digital
Transformation, Agile Transformation, Agile Project Management
and Scrum. He also writes articles on Robotic Process Automation,
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Personal Agility in
leading online publications.
Gaurav has been reviewer for PMI’s Standard for Earned Value
Management and a book on Agile Contracts. He is also a Webinar
and keynote speaker in various global conferences and Reviewing
Committee Member in PMO Global Awards 2020. Gaurav has been
recently appointed as the new Digital Media Global Director of PMO
Global Alliance and been awarded an honorary position of Senior
Official of IAPM, Switzerland for Metropolitan area of Noida, India.

3.  Traditional PMO Practices
 Agile PMO Practices
 Organizational Learning
 Community of PMOs Approach
 Transformation into COP
 Value creation through COP
 Networks of Practice

4.  Sets the direction, maintains and ensures
standards, best practices, and the status of
project management across an organization
 Based on Sequential & Hierarchical model
 Limited Scalability
 Less collaborative and flexible
 Output Driven

5.  Provides adaptability and flexibility in
application
 Enables sharing of learnings to improve
 Consistency
 Collaboration
 Coordination
 Targets high value areas, shifting priorities
and attention to where it’s needed most
 Enables better governance and capability uplift
 Fosters organizational agility

6.  Process of creating, retaining, and transferring
knowledge within an organization
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_challenge_of_organizational_learning

7.  Group of people (PMO manager or employee)
informally bound together by shared expertise
and passion for a joint enterprise.
Organizational learning model (Ropes & Thölke, 2010)

8. https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/project-management-
office-community-practices-6243

9. https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/

10. https://www.scaledagileframework.com
/communities-of-practice/ Director
BusinessAnalysts
ProjectSponsor
ProgramDeliveryManagers
ProjectManager

11. https://www.scaledagileframework.com/communities-of-practice/

12. https://scrumorg-website-
prod.s3.amazonaws.com/drupal/2019-
05/EBM_Guide%20January_2019.pdf
https://wenger-
trayner.com/project/why-focus-
on-communities-of-practice/

13.  Intraorganizational- Learning To Be
◦ Knowing how
 Interorganizational- Learning About
◦ knowing that
 Practice and tools (know what)
 Local Level (know how)
https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/project-management-
office-community-practices-6243

14. QUESTIONS
https://pmoacademy.org/encuesta-2020
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gauravdhooper@yahoo.co.in
How the PMO has transformed
into COP?
Objective:
• To share how the PMO has transformed into Community
of Practice (COP) in Agile world