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Review Everything wrong with agile

Henny Portman

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Role master SM interview Scrum Master replacement Product Owner interview. Manage agile. Scrum at scale.

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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2023

ProjectManager.com

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. Related: Kanban vs. Scrum: Which is Better? There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! Learn to Work Virtually.

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Review 12.5 years AGILE in the Netherlands

Henny Portman

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’. He doesn’t believe in agile leadership exists. It includes a link to the customer story Agile transformation at ING.

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‘A new new bird’s eye view on the agile forest’, the final version

Henny Portman

My quest for agile frameworks, ways-of-working or methods is finished. This was the starting point for the development of Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. 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

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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].

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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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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2019

ProjectManager.com

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. Related: Kanban vs. Scrum: Which is Better? There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! Learn to Work Virtually.

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