Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

2020 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. I wrote around 50 book reviews including 16 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. My own books, whitepapers and articles. Agile related books.

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2020 Technical Review Prince2 2011 105

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Project Management Institute approach has been to bring more agile into the main guide, and to publish it alongside the Agile Practice Guide. The PRINCE2 guidance is not specifically agile , but it could be adapted to be so. There is also PRINCE2 Agile as a specific, different qualification you can get.

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Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team Certification PMI 415

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. This article was published in the Blue Striped Frog magazine.

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Agile 117

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Thought-leaders often have a stake in promoting certain beliefs, so as to bring people to their classes, books, or products. There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. All these sources offer evidence.

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Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 190

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. Overview of reviewed books. Natuurlijk agile.

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2022 Artificial Inteligence Prince2 Agile 52

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 2022 291

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement). I used, for these eight reviews, book reviews that I wrote for this blog and www.managementboek.nl. The reviewed books in which a framework is central are all about project / product delivery frameworks.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Yet it's also the sticking point.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Executing 186

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Membership of professional bodies normally comes with a journal or magazine. Books also count, and there are some excellent project management books out there. Or simply pull up an article on your favorite PM website, or a case study in a magazine and talk about what you would do in that situation. You can volunteer.

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2020 PMI Certification Technical Review 350

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

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2019 Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Leadership 301

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 58

The IIL Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Based in the individual’s personal ambitions and likes you can bond the group by agreeing goals for each team member that the group can follow, maybe to lose a little weight, or train for a sporting event, or visit somewhere special, or write an article for a magazine – it doesn’t matter what it is just that the team have some insight in to each other’s (..)

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Logistics Closing Defining Consulting 78

International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

The following excerpt from his book describes the first insight: “Let them laugh, soul matters most.” A Fulbright Scholar, he’s the internationally acclaimed author of 3 award-winning books: Rebel Leadership, The Language of Man and A Deliberate Pause. Browse IIL’s Agile and Scrum Courses here! Register today.

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Leadership Lean Innovation 2023 52

Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

Like me, do you spend time booking meetings, finding rooms, and distributing information? Google recently demonstrated their new Google Assistant calling and interacting with a hair salon to book a haircut. Agile tool vendor Atlassian, already provide project assistants that help with budgets, estimates, and sprint management.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2018 2003 79

Taskque

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Project Management Book Club – The ultimate project management book club for readers and leaders. Get your hands on all the books that can help you get better in your craft. Guerrilla PM – Being Agile is the next big thing. To wrap it all up. Being a project manager is super-cool. It’s as easy as riding a bike.

2018 86

2018 PMI Software Review Leadership 86

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Have you got books that you recommend? I can send you the details of some books that I recommend, of that in particular. Thank you, Jonathan, for that book recommendation. I think agile projects tend to have agile retrospectives at the end of a sprint, so the culture is there in our methodology. Project magazine?

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Risk Management Risk Closing Initiating 156

Leading Answers

JUNE 21, 2019

Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. This is not how agile retrospectives are supposed to operate. An excellent guide to running effective retrospectives is  Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great  by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

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Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2015 109

Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

Like me, do you spend time booking meetings, finding rooms, and distributing information? Google recently demonstrated their new Google Assistant calling and interacting with a hair salon to book a haircut. Agile tool vendor Atlassian, already provide project assistants that help with budgets, estimates, and sprint management.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2018 2003 60

Taskque

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Project Management Book Club – The ultimate project management book club for readers and leaders. Get your hands on all the books that can help you get better in your craft. Guerrilla PM – Being Agile is the next big thing. To wrap it all up. Being a project manager is super-cool. It’s as easy as riding a bike.

2019 55

2019 PMI Software Review Leadership 55

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Take action now: In one of my latest reads, I came across is by "Jennifer Reed" in Success magazine, she says, "Can there be a more insidious word? Dare to be unpopular, urges motivational speaker Les Brown in his book Live Your Dreams. This is an especially good idea to implement when reading a book. Face your fear.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Lean Defining 71

Resource Guru

MARCH 4, 2019

In this situation, work with John’s schedule on a project-specific basis; otherwise, keep capacity planning at a high level or book time for John to train another resource in this “skill.”. Business agility means resource complexity. Harvard Business Review featured the framework on its May 2018 magazine cover.

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2019 Planning Software Review 2009 84

Online PM Courses

JULY 8, 2018

If you carve out your own ‘self-directed’ learning program, from books, articles, and one-off videos, these will not count. in Agile practices 30 PDUs in Agile topics. For PMI-ACP… Your contact hours must explicitly cover agile practices. Reading (books, magazines, web-articles like ours ).

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PMI Certification Technical Review Agile 69

Binfire

AUGUST 15, 2017

In fact, most projects in high tech using Agile project management method don’t employ certified project managers. Books: PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Fourth Edition (Certification Press) by Joseph Phillips . Project Times – A nicely done magazine about project management. Construction.

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Certification Project Life Cycle PMI Construction 97

Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 14, 2018

And we mustn’t forget that there are other widely used hashtags in the #PMOT community, like #Agile, #PMO, and #PMP. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Chris’s Article at Online PM Courses: Why You can No longer Ignore Agile Methodologies. Developing Leaders.

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PMO Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team PMI 74

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

To to support all of our clients in this time of global crisis, we are offering free registration to our self-paced, online course on Virtual Agile Teams Learn More. Read a magazine or a book, or catch up on personal messages. Day to Day Operations. Get dressed!! Don’t make the mistake of lounging in your pajamas.

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PMI Closing Leadership Agile 66

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Project Management Blogs about Agile and Agile Methods. This is a magazine site that seems to make its money through site adverts and affiliate links. This is mainly for experienced PMs and you should avoid it if you drank the Agile cool-aid and accept some of its assertions uncritically. IT Project Management Blogs.

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2019 2017 2018 Consulting 126

Stepping Into Project Management

JULY 20, 2015

Here are the books/magazines I have been recently reading: The Willpower Instinct – Kelly McGonigal Scrum- The Art of doing Twice the Work in Half the Time – Jeff Sutherland Holacracy- The Revolution Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy-Brian J. From airport clicks to the book I am reading to a peek inside my handbag.

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Governance Government Agile SCRUM 31

Planio

MARCH 8, 2020

I'm currently looking into recording an online course or writing a book about it. In his book, Company of One , entrepreneur Paul Jarvis explains that most businesses expand simply because it’s easier to throw “more” at a problem than try to solve the root cause. You can see this in practice with the Agile development process.

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Sustainability Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Infrastructure 78

Lynne Cazaly

JULY 27, 2018

New ways of working are sweeping the world - leaders across organisations are slashing organisation charts and structures, installing fresh new collaborative spaces and hoping like heck they can get more people to be more involved, more connected and more engaged in more purposeful, creative, ingenious and agile work. Collaborative?.

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Innovation Agile Influencer Closing 45

Wrike

APRIL 12, 2017

Where can you go to talk Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and Agile workflows to your heart’s content with other project management aficionados? Sign up for virtual learning or self-paced courses on Agile, Project Portfolio Management, preventing project failure, and managing high-risk projects. The internet, of course!

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Certification Technical Review PMI Risk Management 50

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And that’s typically how I think about a lot of the talks that I give because everything in the agile communities about doing it and learning from it and sharing with people and getting feedback and figuring out how to do it better and that kind of stuff. What is an Agile Culture So, here’s the end of the talk.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. In any enterprise that depends heavily on information systems, business agility is not possible without technical agility. Rail Booking App.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 85