Henny Portman

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book Projects: Methods: Outcomes – The new PMO Model for True Project and Change Success by Peter Talor offers the author’s view of building a global PMO he is running. His Global PMO is build around three teams: Projects Team focused on onboarding, education, certification, support, community, and project manager career. Methods Team focused on the “how”, the framework for common project delivery whilst offering flexibility on approach, depending on project scale, partnership, and servic

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 3, 2024

This new IPMA standard defines the competences for the individuals working in PMO. All the competences are aligned with the IPMA ICB that is used by all the project, programme or portfolio managers in their everyday activities. A PMO has three main activities: Design – the creation, establishment and maintenance of standards, processes, procedures, and tools that define how work should be done inside.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 10, 2024

P5.express uses a cyclical system to make the portfolio management activities more straightforward and regular. There are biannual, monthly, and daily cycles, each focusing on one aspect of portfolio management activities. In addition to the process, there are 5 portfolio management documents (portfolio description, value generation matrix, global follow-up register, global health register, and business cases) and two roles (portfolio board and portfolio manager).

Agile 52

Agile Initiating Risk Management Executing 52

Henny Portman

JANUARY 12, 2024

In Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management – Satisfy customers and improve organizational effectiveness , authors Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, and Ryan Ripley use the framework Evidence-Based Management (EBM). EBM is an empirical approach that helps organizations use experimentation and rapid feedback to progress towards goals.

Agile 52

Agile Innovation Sustainability Defining 52

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2023 I reviewed many books and created several corresponding quick reference cards. In 2023 the English version of the book Agile Portfolio Management I wrote together with Rini van Solingen was published (order at Amazon: [link] ). Also the new PRINCE2 7 guide was published (I was part of the author team and took the process chapters for my account).

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2023 ChatGPT Prince2 Governance 52

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Alexandra Stokes reveals in her book Empowered Agile Transformation – Beyond the Framework , how large and small organizations have achieved a successful transformation without large consultancies or heavy agile frameworks. What steps do you have to take to start with and achieve a successful transformation. There is no ‘one way’ to transform an organization.

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Agile Cadence Consulting Controlling 59

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This eBook starts by identifying the key characteristics of a disruption-ready organization and outlines four essential best practices for effective product portfolio prioritization amidst the backdrop of disruption. Proactive product organizations need a portfolio management strategy with two key components: An organizational mindset that allows them to adapt effectively in the face of disruptions: Organizational readiness Resilience Suite of capability-driven best practices for effective repri

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Lean Agile Innovation 52

Henny Portman

AUGUST 17, 2023

In Beyond agile auditing – Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices , Clarissa Lucas explains what it means to audit with agility. It focuses on a value-driven, integrated, adaptable approach to the internal audit. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is focusing on the past, present, and future of internal audit.

Technical Review 95

Technical Review Agile Risk Management Consulting 95

Henny Portman

AUGUST 10, 2023

Practical product management for product owners – Creating winning products with the professional product owner stances by Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman is an awesome book for product owners and provides effective behaviors, useful tools, concepts, and techniques to become great product owners. The book is built around the six preferred stances of a product owner.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Influencer Governance Government 52

Henny Portman

AUGUST 8, 2023

After more than two years work it’s great to finally see the PRINCE2 7th Edition transition from idea to reality. The 7th Edition is human centric, AI/data analytics ready, tackles sustainability head on, more flexible than ever and much much more. I was part of a great author team. Thanks to John Edmonds FAPM Vicky Hunter Emily Rebecca Holbrook Szymon Pawłowski, PMP Jo Lucas Tanja van den Akker Brad Bigelow Richard Rose Sue Taylor Michelle Rowland Marisa Silva, the Lu

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Prince2 Sustainability 98

Henny Portman

AUGUST 7, 2023

I am honored to be on the list of the World PMO Influencer of the Year Award with these amazing and extraordinary people. The eighth semi-finalists: Andy Jordan Bill Dow, PMP, ITIL, CSM, SA, PMPO, Prosci Hussain Bandukwala Lindsay Scott Mario H Trentim Dr. Robert Joslin ¦ CEng, ACE, IPMO-E, PfMP, PgMP, PMP Stuart Taylor Henny Portman According to the PMO Global Alliance: “ PMO Global Alliance is thrilled to announce the eighth semi-finalists for the highly anticipated World PMO Influencer of the

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Influencer PMO Leadership 52

Henny Portman

JULY 19, 2023

To support portfolios, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA, UK Government) has the mandate to periodically (every two to three years) review departmental portfolios to provide assurance and practical recommendations for improvement. The review aims to provide a realistic view on a portfolio’s ability to: manage the portfolio’s strategic alignment and appropriate construction in line with delivery constraints. monitor and respond to performance and risk across the portfolio. build the

Governance 52

Governance Government Infrastructure Risk Management 52

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.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Influencer Controlling Lean 98

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.

Governance 59

Governance Government Prince2 Agile 59

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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2022 Artificial Inteligence Prince2 Agile 52

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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2022 Agile 52

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.

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Governance Government 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.

Risk Management 59

Risk Management Initiating Agile Risk 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 Risk Management Agile 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.

Agile 59

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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PMO Governance Government Consulting 115

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

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.

Agile 116

Agile Lean Prince2 Risk Management 116

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

Technical Review 122

Technical Review Software Review Agile 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.

Software Review 119

Software Review 2020 Executing Communications Management 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.

Initiating 115

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,

Artificial Inteligence 119

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software 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.

Governance 111

Governance Government Agile Initiating 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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2021 Lean Agile SCRUM 115

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.

Software Review 119

Software Review Agile Construction SCRUM 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.

Innovation 115

Innovation Risk Sustainability Initiating 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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