Henny Portman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Just published the New bird’s eye view on the agile forest (PMWJ) and I can already make an adjustment (will it ever stop?). Designed for all levels of business (enterprise, team of teams and teams), Remote Agility Framework (remote:af) is an evolution to your ways of working to overcome the modern challenge of distributed teams.

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Agile Governance Government Planning 97

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.

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Agile Software Review Leadership Innovation 111

Henny Portman

MAY 29, 2020

This time I added Agile PM 2. Agile PM 2 is an extension of PM 2 (initiative of the European Union, see: [link] ). As a European citizen, I ask myself, looking at my agile forest, why do we need to spend tax money to develop a new (agile) methodology when there are already so many frameworks and methodologies available?

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Agile SCRUM Development Team Review Initiating 90

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. Next, I add two text boxes over the rhinos with company culture and agile culture.

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Agile Energy Leadership Planning 59

Henny Portman

JANUARY 11, 2022

My ‘bird’s eye view on the agile forest’ gives a fairly complete picture of the different agile frameworks. 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 116

Henny Portman

APRIL 28, 2020

Rethinking agile – Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility written by Klaus Leopold is great book to cope with agile transformations and what you have to do to increase the chance of success. It definitely busted the myth that having agile teams makes you agile. Agility is not a team affair.

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Agile Lean Process Initiating 90

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In the book Agile transformation – Structures, processes and mindsets for the digital age , the author Neil Perkin shows how to transform an organization to a new type of business for a new age and to become fit for purpose for both the present and the future. QRC agile transformation Download. Conclusion.

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Executing 108

Henny Portman

JANUARY 24, 2021

Several articles clustered around the themes: the age of agility, best practices, organizational agility and articles. This second magazine offers interesting stories, new insights and real life cases at UWV, NN, Praktijkschool Oost ter Hout, BAM, New10 and ABN Amro and last but not least a new agile framework.

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Agile Executing Sustainability Planning 105

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Agile Conversations – Transform Your Conversations, Transform your Culture , written by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick could be one of the missing pieces to make your agile transition work. Conversations to become a high-performing team, conversation to reach more agility. qrc-agile-conversations Download.

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Agile Defining Planning 83

Henny Portman

AUGUST 1, 2020

The quest to find more trees for my agile forest continues. Structural Agility is again a way of working that fits in the culture targeted box of my The bird’s eye view on the agile forest overview and complements ‘frameworks’ like Scrum, SAFe, Less, disciplined Agile, et cetera. Understanding how.

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Agile SCRUM Energy Process 111

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We all know Peter Drucker’s famous quote ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ and I transformed that into ‘Culture makes or breaks your agile transition’. For me this is reason number one why so many agile transitions fail. To download the article Culture makes or breaks your agile transition Download.

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Agile 118

Henny Portman

APRIL 1, 2020

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto is “ Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential ”. If you look at some agile frameworks or ways of working, you can ask yourself if the rule makers force you to be rule taker or rule breaker. Agile framework or way of working. Agile manifesto.

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Agile SCRUM Prince2 Innovation 85

Henny Portman

APRIL 15, 2020

The Business Agility model is the next one to add to my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest. The Business Agility Model (developed by the Business Agility Institute) consisting of twelve interacting domains across four dimensions to take into account when transforming your organization.

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Agile SCRUM Innovation Leadership 86

Henny Portman

MAY 30, 2019

The Agile Fluency model, developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore in 2012 and substantially updated in 2018, is a framework to help teams understand their current position and to help them develop an individual road map. Agile teams pass through four distinct zones of fluency as they learn ( fluency evolves).

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Agile Cadence 2012 2018 86

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A magazine for the Blue Striped Frog community of professionals who are engaged in transformations towards increasing organizational agility. At this moment there aren’t that many physical magazines focussing on project management, agile, or agility anymore. In this interview we see how they constructed an agile future.

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Agile Leadership Construction Defining 102

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Happy to see my A new bird’s eye view on the agile forest article in the October edition of the Project Management World Journal (PMWJ). At that moment it contained 50 agile ways of working. A new bird’s eye view on the agile forest; PM World Journal , Vol. A new bird’s eye view on the Agile forest. Portman, H.

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Agile 2020 119

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Christopher Wright wrote the book Agile Governance and Audit – An overview for auditors and agile teams. Auditing of an agile way of working looks like an unexplored corner. Agile Governance and Audit gives a short introduction to agile, compares agile with waterfall and looks at audit and agile cultures.

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Agile Governance Government Prince2 63

Henny Portman

MARCH 23, 2020

In this third edition of AGILE NXT — a magazine designed by Xebia’s thought leaders and experts to inspire and inform you, offers 15 new insights: The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments (Daniel Burm). Stop Focusing on Agile & Start Adding Real Value (Kevin Bakker). Need Business Agility?

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Agile SCRUM Influencer Leadership 80

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. Will the Project Manager survive in the agile world?

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Agile 2021 86

Henny Portman

JULY 12, 2019

On request of several of my followers I created a mini webinar of the PRINCE2 Agile Agilometer. According to the official PRINCE2 Agile manual, the Agilometer is a tool that assesses the level of risk associated with using agile in combination with PRINCE2. The Agilometer should evolve to suit the needs of each organization.

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Prince2 Agile Risk Management Risk 63

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

My quest for agile frameworks, ways-of-working or methods is finished. Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is Agile Scrum? Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is Agile Scrum? ” pmwj98-oct2020-portman-a-new-birds-eye-view-on-agile-forest-v3.0-1 1 Download.

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Agile SCRUM 2019 2020 103

Henny Portman

MARCH 1, 2020

Conclusion: Scream isn’t a new tree in the agile forest. It is fun to read and every sentence is an agile antipatern. This guide will definitely help to mature your own chosen agile framework tree implementation. To refresh your memory have a look at the latest Bird’s eye view on the Agile forest.

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Agile SCRUM Development Team Review 2019 76

Henny Portman

MAY 14, 2019

Friday May 10, 2019, I was one of the 40 participants of the first Agile NXT Future Day conference organized by Xebia. The first session – Why the Agile “Fixed-Team” Dogma is Wrong (Laïla Nouijeh & Laurens Bonnema) was somewhat controversial. The group was split in two to facilitate discussion and active participation.

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Agile Software Review 2019 Process 63

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The guide addresses assurance in relation to the areas that are considered the fundamental aspects (and key differences form traditional waterfall approach) of agile project management and assurance. A Terms of Reference (ToR) focusing on the specifics of an agile way of working, the planning of the review and the the output.

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Agile Prince2 SCRUM PMI 61

Henny Portman

APRIL 11, 2019

The book An executive’s guide to disciplined agile – Winning the race to business agility written by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines give a good overview of Disciplined Agile. DA provides the process foundation for business agility. DA provides the process foundation for business agility. Disciplined DevOps.

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Agile Technical Review Lean SCRUM 60

Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is one of the four elements of Disciplined Agile (DA).

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Technical Review Agile SCRUM Lean 53

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Friday September 13, I was one of the 40 participants of the second Agile NXT Future Friday conference organized by Xebia in Hilversum, the Netherlands. It was, similar as the first AGILE NXT Future Friday, perfectly organized, interesting topics, great food, and enough time to network. The Responsive Organization.

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Agile SCRUM Risk Management Leadership 64

Henny Portman

APRIL 8, 2019

I give a lot of workshops and presentations and in many cases, attendees ask for the ‘silver bullet’ to become agile. It is far too short-sighted to think that you have to implement one agile framework and you achieve agility. See my blog: A birds eye view on the agile frameworks forest ). How Agile is Our Human Brain?

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Agile 2019 Sustainability Innovation 66

Henny Portman

JUNE 8, 2020

The goal of the Flow framework tm (developed by Mike Kersten) is to bring Scrum and Agile concepts to the business while providing a higher level of abstraction than agile teams work with day to day. See my blog for the complete Bird’s eye view on the agile forest article.

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Agile SCRUM Governance Government 83

Henny Portman

JULY 10, 2019

This is XEBIA’s second edition of AGILE NXT (see AGILE NXT for the first edition). This time you get approximately twenty articles to bring you up to speed with new insights for agile performance management. Diamond Agile: Measuring What’s Meaningful (by Frank Verbruggen). Associated with each perspective are metrics.

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Agile Development Team Review SCRUM Influencer 59

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 14, 2019

On linkedIn I received a remark that the Heart of Agile was missing in my bird’s eye view (kudos to Milvio D. ). The Heart of Agile is a radically simpler approach to achieve outstanding outcomes. The founder is Dr. Alistair Cockburn, one of the Agile Manifesto co-authors. See [link] for more detailed information.

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Agile Initiating Influencer Closing 59

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

2019 nr 26, is an updated version of the 50 shades of gray between agile and waterfall story I presented during the last NTPM 2019 conference in Gda?sk, For each perspective I look into the traditional and agile view and what’s in between. sk, Poland.

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Agile PMI 2019 Leadership 59

Henny Portman

JUNE 4, 2020

I am pleased to inform you that my featured paper “ A bird’s eye view on the agile forest ” has been translated and published in Russian by the Magazine of COBHET (SOVNET), the Russian Project Management Association, with the title “????? ????????????? ? ?????? ????????????”. To download: [link].

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Agile 2019 59

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2021

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2021 SCRUM Agile Lean 116

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The PM World Journal has published the latest version of my Bird’s eye view in the agile forest article. Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is agile Scrum? ” At this moment there are more than fifty known and less known agile approaches, frameworks or methods available.

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Agile SCRUM 2019 51

Henny Portman

AUGUST 15, 2021

Programs are sometimes seen as a relic from the past; something from the time when we weren’t talking about agile working. Even if autonomous teams with agile ways of working are already widely used, in the larger organizations many teams will soon have to work together to approach the common goal. What is the essence of TOAH?

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Agile Executing 2021 Governance 106