IDG Contributor Network: The Agile PMO

The Project Management Office has received a negative reputation in many corporate circles.  Often hailed as the "Project Management Overhead," many consider the PMO a waste of corporate budget and time, an office that exists to create strict consistency rules while hampering the efficiency and effectiveness of software, firmware and hardware delivery.  Unfortunately, my experience interacting with dozens of PMO's, the criticism has roots within reality. Back in the early 2000's,