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Review Blue Striped Frog – The agile community – Magazine (3rd edition)

Henny Portman

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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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. However, innovation and learning take conscious effort, forward planning and accountability.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

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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Overview of my year 2021 book reviews

Henny Portman

com/2021/05/18/recensie-toolkit-voor-agile-coaches-en-scrum-masters/ [link] hennyportman.wordpress.com /2021/05/14/recensie-superkrachten/ [link]. com/2021/05/18/recensie-toolkit-voor-agile-coaches-en-scrum-masters/ [link] hennyportman.wordpress.com /2021/05/14/recensie-superkrachten/ [link]. 15 juli 2021 Is Agile altijd beter? ,

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AGILE NXT FUTURE FRIDAY 2019

Henny Portman

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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Overseeing 135 book reviews, what stands out?

Henny Portman

I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement). On request of this Dutch PM magazine, I was asked whether one or more common threads could be discovered in all these underlying books. Many books are about business agility, culture and / or agile transition.

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Review AGILE NXT – New Insights for Agile Performance Management

Henny Portman

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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