The Project Management Office isn't disappearing because agile teams don't need governance β€” it's disappearing because too many PMOs never learned to do anything except enforce it. Picture this scene, which plays out with depressing regularity across enterprise IT floors: a product owner finishes a sprint and, before she can breathe, receives an email from the PMO asking her to convert her product backlog into a Gantt chart for the monthly project board. She has no Gantt chart. She has w...