Velocity & Control: Unifying Governance and Delivery with Scaled Agile
Successfully merging strategic project oversight with high-velocity delivery to reduce conflict and dramatically cut time-to-market for new features. This project was the ultimate fusion of governance and speed, establishing a new IT PMO structure that enforced standards while simultaneously enabling rapid product deployment via a Scaled Agile Framework.
Our Challenge
The Problem: The FinTech client was experiencing significant delays in deploying new regulatory features and consumer products. They lacked a unified project pipeline, leading to conflicting priorities, resource contention, and high project failure rates. Traditional project management methods were too slow for their rapid market needs.
Our Solution (The Approach): Wisey Way was engaged to solve this conflict by establishing a modern IT PMO structure that governed intake and resources, but deployed projects using a Scaled Agile Framework. This required defining new governance policies, standardizing KPIs, and training teams for an incremental delivery mindset.
- Define and formalize the new PMO Charter and governance structure.
- Implement a standardized project scoring and intake process.
- Introduce Agile rituals and cross-functional teams (Scrum/Kanban).
- Integrate project tracking tools with new governance reporting requirements.
The Result Of Project
Tangible Impact: By merging structured PMO governance with Agile practices, the client achieved a high-velocity, low-risk delivery pipeline. The new governance model ensured all projects were strategically aligned, while the Agile rollout dramatically improved deployment speed.
- 40% Reduction in project overlap and resource conflicts.
- 55% Faster time-to-market for major regulatory features.
- Project teams reported a 25% increase in work-life balance and clarity of purpose.
- Established a permanent PMO that continues to enforce standards and support scaled agile teams.
