Henny Portman

JUNE 22, 2023

Deming’s journey to profound knowledge – How Deming helped win a war, altered the face of industry, and holds the key to our future by John “Botchagalupe” Willis may look like a biography of Deming, but it’s the story behind the story of his masterwork, which he shared with the world when he was ninety-three years old. Just after he passed away in 1993, Deming’s book The New Economics was published.

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Henny Portman

JUNE 17, 2023

With the book Thinking on Bets – Making smarter decisions when you don’t have all the facts , former world Series of Poker champion Annie Duke gives us the tools to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. The book is pleasantly written, consists of six chapters and offers both theory and practice with frequent analogies being sought to her experience as a poker player.

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Defining 59

Henny Portman

MAY 31, 2023

The book Project, Programme and portfolio governance (P3G), by Ross Garland and Adrian Morey is a comprehensive and practical guide to realize optimum outcomes and benefits characterized by: Right decisions at the right time Right people in the right roles Right accountabilities, responsibilities and delegated authority Right structure Right information.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 5, 2023

2022 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. As one of the 6 judges for the managementboek of the year contest I read 90+ books. We agreed to be very careful when writing about these books, so with some exceptions you will not find those reviews on this blog. You can stil find around 30 book reviews including 10 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management, as well as many artic

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Happy to see that one of my articles regarding the evolution of agile frameworks is now available in Portugese too. It is published in Project Design Management (MundoPM) no 107 – Nov 2022. ed107_artigo12 Download.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. This first English version could be seen as a third edition (see below for the differences between this and the second Dutch edition). The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first.

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Agile Software Review SCRUM Controlling 52

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Now that I am working on a book on agile portfolio management, I was curious about this book. Looking at the title I was thinking am I too late? After reading the book I am even more energized to deliver the agile portfolio management book. This book is all about prescriptive or control-based portfolio management. The outcome-driven organization – Your project portfolio running on espresso 2 nd Edition , written by Linda E.

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Risk Management Agile Risk Initiating 59

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Happy to see that TSO published my latest book. Looking for guidance and overviews of PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, P3O, MoR, AgileSHIFT, P3M3 than this book will help. Do you come across daily challenges when managing portfolios, programmes, or projects? No matter what role you have in the portfolio, programme, or project team, you will find practical solutions in this guide to help you perform more effectively and achieve your strategic objectives.

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Prince2 Agile Risk Management Risk 52

Henny Portman

AUGUST 26, 2022

Nice to see that the Finnish magazine PROJEKTI Maailma 2 2022 posted my article The revolution of agile frameworks. The article reflects the keynote speech during 3PMO-tapahtuma 8.6.2022. portman-vedos-2-pm-2022-2 Download.

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Agile 2022 59

Henny Portman

AUGUST 10, 2022

The professional agile leader – The leader’s journey toward growing mature agile teams and organizations by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner and Laurens Bonnema provides a detailed understanding of the leader’s role in an agile transformation. When talking about reasons why so many agile transformations fail, I often show a picture of two rhinos colliding, and saying that this is the reason why.

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Agile Energy Leadership Planning 59

Henny Portman

JUNE 25, 2022

The book PMO Services and Capabilities – Including an overview of AIPMO’s competence framework – Competences per PMO service – Techniques and tools per PMO service is written by Robert Joslin. This book is unique as it addresses in a systematic and structured way for each PMO service including the associated attributes how to implement service to provide the right service to the right people at the right moment.

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Henny Portman

MAY 16, 2022

The book Remote Team Interactions Workbook – Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working written by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores several aspects of team-first remote work including highlighting poor team interactions, the usage of the team-API pattern to define and communicate the focus of teams, to remove team-level dependencies, to design inter-team communications and make use of the three team interaction modes from Team Topologies to help.

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Underperforming Technical Team Defining Engineering Executing 111

Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 3, 2022

The book Better Agile – How every software firm can spend less time firefighting and have more fun building great software by David Daly highlights his experiences to make agile work. It offers Scrum and Kanban mistakes to avoid and three agile secrets to continuously improve your agility. The book can be divided in two parts. The first part elaborates on the author’s three agile secrets: how to optimize for flow, how to get the right people doing the right things and the impact of the rig

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Agile Software Review Technical Review SCRUM 122

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Happy to see that the Project Management world Journal published my featured article Portman, H. (2022). Project management maturity and excellence models: Stirring in the fruit bowl; PM World Journal , Vol. XI, Issue II, February. In this article I look at different maturity and excellence models in project management. At this moment around 50 different models are included.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 27, 2022

The book The good mate – How understanding team relationships can make you happier and more productive , by James Johnson and Evan Sorensen, offers the tools and shows the needed skills for successful team relationships. The book combined two decades of research (Standish Group) on emotional intelligence behavior of project teams with 40 years of research on successful marriage and family dynamics.

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Software Review Communications Management Executing 2020 119

Henny Portman

JANUARY 23, 2022

AI and more specific AI and project management gets more and more attention. The key to this development, however, is project data. Getting started in project data is a report that helps you to get a first understanding of project data analytics. The guide from the APM contains contributions from Alex Robertson, Andy Murray, Gareth Parkes, and Martin Paver. qrc-project-data-ai-and-pm-220122-v1 Download.

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Initiating Process 115

Henny Portman

JANUARY 22, 2022

The book AI and the project manager – How the rise of artificial intelligence will change your world , by Peter Taylor, is probably one of the first where we see the link between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and project management. It gives insights into what is out there with regard to AI in project management. Gartner states that by 2030, 80% of the work of today’s project managers will be eliminated as AI takes on functions such as data collection, tracking, reporting, analytics,

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 2030 119

Henny Portman

JANUARY 12, 2022

IPMA OCB offers insights for all interested in understanding how to improve the way projects, programmes and portfolios are managed in an organization. The IPMA OCB provides a standard for organizations to analyse their context, to identify relevant trends and to develop their strategies, processes, structures, cultures and project, programme and portfolio competences.

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Agile Defining Governance Government 111

Henny Portman

JANUARY 11, 2022

My ‘bird’s eye view on the agile forest’ gives a fairly complete picture of the different agile frameworks. I only adapt it when I come across really deviant frameworks. This time it’s MAHD. Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework was developed by Gary Hinkle and Dorian Simpson. It is similar to agile for software methods, but with critical differences.

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Agile Risk Software 115

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 35 book reviews including 12 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. Agile/lean/coaching/transformation: [link] hennyportman.wordpress.com /2021/12/24/review-cycles-the-simplest-proven-method-to-innovate-faster-while-reducing-risks/ [link] 2021 /12/27/review-everything-wrong-with-agile/ [link] hennyportman.wordpre

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As a result of my book reviews in 2021, I created several Quick Reference Cards to summarize what I have read. QRC’s: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link].

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. A feast of recognition. Delightful cartoons showing a multitude of anti-patterns. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Time to turn Scrum transformation Robust plan Framework selection Cherry picking Meet the agile community Hybrid agile Copy and paste FATE (Fake Agile Transformation for Enterprises) gile transformation.

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Agile Software Review SCRUM Estimate 119

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The book Cycles – The simplest, proven method to innovate faster while reducing risks , written by Bryan Cassady with the collaboration of 22 co-authors, offers not only the ‘ why’ and ‘ what’ but also the ‘ how’ of innovation. The main parts of the book follow the author’s ABCS framework: A – Alignment. Alignment is the foundation of effective growth.

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Innovation Risk Sustainability Defining 115

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The third edition of the Blue Striped Frog magazine offers insights into leadership, programme management, the combination of low-code with agile working and several articles focusing on working remotely under the Northern lights, Pippi’s lesson about the agile mindset and wonders if agility lost its ability to be innovative. The first article gives an impression of a walk and talk in the surroundings of Loon op Zand with Theo van Kessel, APG, about the role of leadership in agile transformation

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Agile Software Review Leadership Innovation 111

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Awesome to see that Yu Qin translated my QRC Team Topologies into Chinese. Published on: [link] For a review of the Team Topologies book and English QRC see: [link].

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition, written by J. Kent Crawford, is a comprehensive but complete guide to understand and use the maturity model PMMM. The PMMM is based on the knowledge areas of the 6 th edition of the PMBoK guide and the five levels of maturity from CMMI. Each knowledge area is broken down the into specific key components.

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PMO Risk Management Communications Management Project Cost 119

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Happy to see that the article about TOAH and programs I wrote together with Henk Venema is not only available in English but in Portuguese too. ed100_artigo12-toah-e-programas Download.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Today I finished my tasks as judge in the 2021 World PMO of the Year Award competition organized by the PMO Global Alliance. This was the third time in a row and every time I am amazed how many excellent high performing PMOs there are. It’s not only a judging process. As a judge you can learn a lot from those PMO presentations. The regional award winners and finalists for the 2021 World PMO of the Year Award are: 2021 Africa PMO of the Year Award Winner: City of Cape Town (SOUTH AFRICA) 2021 Asi

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Henny Portman

AUGUST 15, 2021

I am happy to announce a new article I wrote together with Henk Venema. Programs are sometimes seen as a relic from the past; something from the time when we weren’t talking about agile working. In small organizations, this could very well be the case. Working together toward a commonly felt goal is easier when you must coordinate it with a handful of teams.

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Agile Executing 2021 Governance 105

Henny Portman

AUGUST 15, 2021

In the book Successful Digital Transformation – A Survival Guide for Managers and Executives by Marc Beijen, we get a nice and practical overview of different possible and mutually reinforcing digital transformations that you can use when formulating your own digital transformation. The book starts with a consideration of the digital revolution in the 21st century.

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Technical Review Agile Executing Process 111

Henny Portman

MAY 28, 2021

Delighted to hear the news that two of my papers received an Editor’s Choice Award. Editor’s Choice Awards are selected each year by the Managing Editor of the PMWJ based on perceived importance to the project management field, perceived value or usefulness to readers, and quality of the writing, topic coverage and references. A new bird’s eye view on the Agile forest received the 2020 PMWJ Editor’s Choice Awards in the Papers category Project Creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of

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Agile 2020 105

Henny Portman

MAY 10, 2021

Honored to be interview by Yu Yanjuan, Journalist of Project Management Review (PMR, China). The interview is republished with the permission of PMR in the PM World Journal (PMWJ). To see the original interview with Chinese introduction, visit PMR at [link]. PMR (2021). Agile is a Mindset: Interview with Henny Portman; Project Management Review ; republished in the PM World Journal , Vol.

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Agile 2021 105

Henny Portman

APRIL 21, 2021

Honored to see that the two articles I wrote together with Marisa Silva regarding project creatures are now translated into Chinese and published in China. Portman, H. And Silva, M. (2020). Project Creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of projects; PM World Journal, Vol. IX, Issue IX, September 2020 Silva, M. and Portman, H. (2019). Creatures that slow down portfolio delivery and how to kill them; PM World Journal, Vol.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 20, 2021

Happy to see that one of the key chapters of my Dutch book Scaling agile in organisaties is now not only available in English but in Portuguese too. O GERENTE DE PROJETO SOBREVIVERÁ NO MUNDO ÁGIL? . Together with the article Agile development – 100 mantiras de trabalhar com Agile – based on a shortened version of ‘ the bird’s eye view in the agile forest ‘ you now have access to the two key chapters in Portugese. o-gerente-de-projeto-sobrevivera-no-mundo-agil Download.

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Agile 116

Henny Portman

APRIL 8, 2021

This article is based on one of the key chapters of my Dutch book Scaling agile in organisaties and now available for my English readers too. Together with the article A new new bird’s eye view on the agile forest you have the most important chapters of this book. All other chapters are summaries of the most common scaling agile frameworks. These summaries can be found on this blog too.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 17, 2021

Xebia published an interactive e-magazine Agile NXT ‘ 12.5 years AGILE in the Netherlands – more than a decade of agile captured in compelling stories and next steps for the future’. In total seven interviews and five articles. The first interview and 5-minute video is with Jeff Sutherland talking about the future of agile organizations, the importance of leadership and the use and impact of Scrum and Scrum at Scale (“ It’s all common sense with an uncommon level of discipline ” – Je

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