Does this sound familiar?
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Traditional PPM solutions are not accepted by many teams.
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There are many other solutions in use that functionally overlap with Microsoft 365 and are not integrated.
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It is very time-consuming to get an overview of the portfolio of all projects and agile initiatives.
Project and portfolio management trends in the age of AI
9:00 - 9:15 The most important trends. Automate your PMO or VMO with artificial intelligence from Microsoft and Atlassian. Manage your portfolios, programs, projects and agile initiatives effectively to achieve your strategic goals. Avoid Excel hell, disappointing results, too much data without insights, double entry, non-integrated agile project management tools and slow strategy execution.
Speaker: Renke Holert, Holert GmbH - Benefit from over twenty years of experience in using project and portfolio management software with Microsoft and Atlassian, e.g. at KUKA, Rohde & Schwarz, Amer Sports, KWS, LAPP.
Project Online alternatives
9:15 - 9:30 Project Online will be discontinued by Microsoft in September 2026. What are the alternatives from Microsoft such as Planner with Plan 1, 3 and 5? Can I continue to work in a new solution with the Project Desktop app for selected projects? Where are the limits?
What do I need to consider when switching to a future-proof solution? How can I migrate my data as a test within one day? Can I continue to use my existing reports? Will the data remain secure in my Microsoft 365 environment? What are the advantages of an alternative?
Speaker: Renke Holert, Holert GmbH
Speed up your PMO with AI
09:30 - 10:15 In the PMO, there are many tedious manual tasks such as creating projects and checking the plausibility and completion of project proposals and status reports, and at the same time it is challenging to ensure effective governance without burdening project managers with additional bureaucracy.
How can the latest AI tools from Microsoft, such as CoPilot, Copilot Agents, AI Builder and more, help to simplify our lives? We will show this using practical examples.
Speaker: Jacob Hansen, Context&, former Senior Manager of the LEGO IT PMO
Promoting agility - from PMO to VMO
10:15 - 10:45 How can I as a PMO help to implement the company's strategy more quickly and achieve the desired goals faster? Where does it make sense to transfer projects into products? And how do I bring the agile, hybrid and traditional worlds together? How do I increase the value of the portfolio in a Value Management Office (VMO)? How can I integrate OKRs ?
Examples of the integration of the two worlds. Overview of the latest developments in SAFe and the Atlassian ecosystem including Rovo, Atlassian's AI.
Speaker: Renke Holert & Team, Founder and Managing Director, Holert GmbH
Smart automation in the KUKA PMO
11:00 - 11:45 KUKA, the spearhead of global automation, has an excellent PMO for the R&D department. The technical implementation was historically based on Project Online. In addition, numerous add-ons were used that had grown over the years. This made operation time-consuming and technologically outdated. KUKA was therefore looking for a future-proof standard solution that would support all previous processes and enable a seamless transition. KUKA found this solution with Projectum xPM for Microsoft 365.
Speaker: David Kurz, PPMO Consultant, KUKA Deutschland GmbH
Networking & Lunch
11:45 - 13:00 Exchange the latest experiences with other PMOs and VMOs as well as Jacob Hansen, David Kurz and the Holert team. Enjoy the view from the 31st floor over Munich while having lunch together.
