The 90-Day PMO Rollout

The exact step-by-step checklist to stand up a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence.

Days 1-30 Discovery & Intake

Map the Value Streams Identify how value currently flows from request to delivery. Highlight the major bottlenecks.

Establish the "Single Front Door" Configure a Jira Service Management (JSM) or Portfolio Kanban board for all incoming executive and product requests.

Halt "Shadow Work" Mandate that engineers only work on tickets that have passed through the formal Intake Review stage.

Days 31-60 Governance & Radiators

Implement Lean Business Cases Replace 20-page PRDs with 1-page Lean Epic Briefs focusing on WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First).

Build Automated Exec Dashboards Stop making PowerPoint slides. Build real-time Jira Dashboards for the C-Suite (Risk Radar, Epic Burnups).

Launch the Steering Committee (ESC) Schedule the first bi-weekly ESC meeting. Enforce the rule: Decisions and Escalations ONLY.

Days 61-90 Scaling & Dependencies

Hardwire Cross-Team Links Audit all active Sprints. Ensure every external dependency uses the strict "Blocks / Is Blocked By" Jira link type.

Embed Vendors into Agile Ceremonies Require all System Integrators to attend internal System Demos and map their risks on the shared board.

First PI (Program Increment) Planning Execute the first quarterly Big Room Planning event to align all Agile Release Trains for the next 10 weeks.

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