The world in which we live and work is getting more and more unpredictable. Disruptive Changes are coming in all directions and our response levels are being stretched to their limits. Although VUCA was first used back in 1987, it was 2002 that the US military began referencing the term internally. Even more recently, it has become present in describing the working world and the continuous change taking place, as a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous place. Rich will unpack VUCA and how it relates to the continuous disruptive change being navigated by organizations and the people who work in them. Rich will use elements of Lego® Serious Play® to make this a visual and tactile learning experience for all attendees.

With all the talk of agile these days, many are wondering, “what about the PMO”? In fact, much of the agile conversation emphasizes how PMs and PMOs are the cause of project failure and are the very motivation for agile methods in the first place. But what if I’m a PMO leader asked to drive adoption of agile methods? what if all those agile experts report into my PMO? In this lively conversation, Jesse and Laura discover that we can be sensitive to tension between agilists and PMO leaders, and still drive value.