Integrating Scrum with the Process Framework at Yahoo! Europe

Large enterprise organisations usually have a project management office (PMO) whose responsibility it is to oversee a standardisation of project management practices across a portfolio. This can often be in conflict with the agile principles of self-organisation and inspect and adapt. We describe how one of Yahoo! Europepsilas teams helped implement a process which was compatible both with agile values and principles, and European PMO standards, and also how it has influenced international process framework evolution. As a result, we demonstrate that a PMO process can be compatible with an agile process, and that a PMO can add value to agile teams.