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. com/2021/06/09/recensie-uit-het-transformatiemoeras/ [link]. Miscellaneous: [link].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In this video I share my top picks for books on Agile, especially for those of you new to Agile or considering moving your organisation to Agile ways of working. These are my current favourite books on agile for project managers. Under the video you’ll see details of each of the books mentioned. A practitioner guide to Agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Again, lean on the team to put together estimates that are reliable: working with the correct numbers makes everything easier and helps you avoid common scheduling mistakes ! Book a power hour with me. Book a power hour Pin for later reading This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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Henny Portman

JULY 17, 2020

With the book True lean – Your guide to the fundamentals connecting purpose, process and people written by Rudy Gort you get a concise but complete and clear overview of and insight into lean. The book is divided into three parts. The last part elaborates on the power of lean. In chronological order: Y?zan

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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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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She has written five books on project management including Communicating Change, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Handbook of People in Project Management, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World and Customer-Centric Project Management. Related: Top Project Management Conferences of 2019. Jason Westland.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. XP, scrum, lean, etc.)

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. Most recently Jeff co-founded Sense & Respond Press , a publishing house for practical business books for busy executives. Jeff Gothelf’s Website.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Lean UX An extension of traditional UX design, Lean UX focuses on the actual design experience and relies heavily on a cycle of prototyping, testing, and iterating. Please share with us in the comments.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ How do you coach a PO of good lean backlog management in case they don’t want to receive any feedback and seem sensitive to advice from the ScM? One of his hobbies is writing articles. Hands-on Agile. ? How to handle this? One backlog?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Master Scrum with ease; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? For example, I just completed the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book, and I could use its complete text to train a GPT running on top of GPT-4. What Is a Scrum GPT? Just ignore the legal side of this for a moment.)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

There is a chance that processes lean too far in the other direction too. If they don’t realise they have to use the room booking process for sorting out meeting rooms, they will continue to circumnavigate the process and go directly to the office manager: causing problems on both sides, I expect. Processes are too bureaucratic.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? In addition to coaching, Jimmy holds courses, writes books and blogs on all things agile and lean such as agile leadership, large scale agile, team dynamics, visualization and facilitation. Jimmy is the author of the book Visualization Example and creator of the Jimmy Cards.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Do you refer to OKRs in general or to OKRs as you define them in your OKR book? Hands-on Agile 42: Lean Roadmapping and OKRs with Janna Bastow. The article Allan Kelly: Honey, I Shrunk the Backlog — Hands-on Agile 44 was first published on Age-of-Product.com.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 15, 2022

This is a guest article from Andy Kaufman, PMP. Sarah Robb-O’Hagan wrote a book entitled Extreme You. And, as Dr John Medina told me in an interview about his latest Brain Rules book, trying new things is one of the best strategies to keep your brain sharp over the years. Andy Kaufman. In a word, it’s assertiveness.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So much of what you might have read about online or in project management books, or even be taught on training courses, is simply not aligned the skills we need to use every day. In this article I’ll look at 5 project management techniques, processes and skills that you will no doubt have heard mentioned time and time again.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2022

Once that leaning out has been done, the second is to monitor the project manager’s administrative effort and provide them with support once it exceeds a reasonable threshold. (If If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? (If

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2019

It’s not solely about the decisions of executives though, it’s also about great project leaders learning to run fast and lean while developing high performing teams that can deliver value to their organization. Behaviors and competencies for lean and fast teams can differ in many ways. Project Performance Affects the Bottom Line.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Other helpful practices are stakeholder retrospectives or the equivalent of lean manufacturing’s Gemba walks. Lean Change Management can help understand why that is and how to make progress anyway. . Recommended Articles. Download the free Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.

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MPUG

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scrum is one of the most used frameworks in Lean-Agile space , among others such as Kanban, eXtreme Programming (XP), or Scrum combined with XP. I first implemented a Lean-Agile framework in 2005, but little did I know about its future popularity and usage then. The Scrum framework comes mainly with three artifacts.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 29, 2021

Checks and balances are required but these should be done in the spirit of lean governance rather than of micromanagement. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 3, 2019

At the end of this article there’s a link to download my free roles and responsibilities document template. In this article I’ll give you everything you need to know about producing a RACI chart for your project. There’s a lot going on in this article so here are some quick links to help you navigate through it. Further Reading.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! Comparing velocities may lead to unhealthy competition and encourage teams to inflate estimates, also known as cooking the agile books. Please share your thoughts with us in the comments. By the way, it’s free.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

This Forbes article “ The Benefits Of Using Agile Software Development ” lists quite a few. Lean software development was originally developed by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in their book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. They took lean manufacturing principles and applied them to software development.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

I do have an article on this, by the way, it’s called mirror mirror on the wall , who is the most and I won’t say anymore. That article has been out there since September, 2018. And I need to add flight levels to that article, but today I’m going to talk about LeSS, disciplined agile, scrum with scale, SAFe, Nexus.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Successful IT leaders need to develop and lean into a set of power skills. In 2023, Lucy moved into the freelance space – giving her time to work on co-authoring her first book as well as being involved in various thought leadership projects. Connect with Lucy here: [link] Browse IIL’s Information Technology Courses here!

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

This Article allows you to explore these methodologies in-depth, tailor them to fit your unique project needs, and wield them to achieve unparalleled project outcomes. The Kanban Board originates from Toyota's manufacturing system in the late 1940s, where it is a part of the Lean Manufacturing principles by Taiichi Ohno.

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Agilemania

MAY 21, 2021

For example, suppose you haven’t worked at the portfolio level, in which case, it’s beneficial to go through the articles on value stream, Lean Portfolio Management, including that of Lean Budgets and Guardrails. Do spend time on concepts like Lean-Agile mind-set, the core values, and principles of SAFe as well.

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Agilemania

MAY 21, 2021

For example, suppose you haven’t worked at the portfolio level, in which case, it’s beneficial to go through the articles on value stream, Lean Portfolio Management, including that of Lean Budgets and Guardrails. Do spend time on concepts like Lean-Agile mind-set, the core values, and principles of SAFe as well.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I like the metaphor that Malcolm Gladwell uses in his popular science book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It seems to me that Gladwell’s book leans heavily on the work of research psychologist, Gary Klein. Any serious project manager would do well to read his books. Thin-Slicing. That’s intuition.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ The Sprint Review in Scrum is a good example of the practice.)

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MPUG

JANUARY 22, 2024

Two widely accepted Lean-Agile approaches, iteration- and flow-based, are embraced by Agile practitioners. While iteration-based Agile prescribes an iteration, in flow-based Agile, iterations are not prescribed. The most well-known framework for iteration-based Agile is Scrum , while Kanban represents flow-based Agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 23, 2016

At the end of this article there’s a link to download my free roles and responsibilities document template. In this article I’ll give you everything you need to know about producing a RACI chart for your project. There’s a lot going on in this article so here are some quick links to help you navigate through it. Further Reading.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. However, you should also make it clear that this is not your project anymore and they are responsible, otherwise they’ll lean on you for a long time. I’ve taken training courses, read books and generally looked out for my own progression. And I told him so.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 17, 2023

In a legal setting, making progress on the deployment of new case management software might need input from specialists to set up the data fields and information taxonomies so everyone else can use it – and if they are booked out on other work, you have to wait for them.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management.

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