Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

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

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Governance Government Agile Project Life Cycle 63

Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer In the previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement) , we discussed: “Stakeholder”- who are they? Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam.

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Influencer Governance Government Consulting 205

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

What is a Scrum Master? What are the differences between a Scrum Master and Project Manager? Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? There is almost no overlap between the role of Scrum Master and the position of Project Manager. What is a Scrum Master? What a Scrum Master does.

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SCRUM Prince2 Risk Management Development Team Review 210

International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies. Now, the use of Agile, Scrum, and Hybrid Methodologies applied to strategic projects are creating new best practices and new approaches for managing scope creep.

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Governance Government Controlling SCRUM 80

Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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ChatGPT Technical Review 2023 SCRUM 182

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Unzählige Scrum Teams haben alle Vorschläge gründlich getestet. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Exklusively auf meinem Substack-Newsletter : Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (6). ?

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SCRUM 2024 Agile Governance 176

The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job.

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Aerospace Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 147

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 27, 2019

2019 was again a fruitful book review year. I wrote around 40 book reviews including corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management. Agile governance and audit. Scrum in actie – maak van elk project een succes.

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2019 Prince2 Governance Government 76

The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

VE and VA terms are most frequently used on government projects rather than in traditional project management applications. EVMS is still being used, especially on government projects. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and Hybrid approaches are growing in acceptance. Earned Value Measurement By the 1960s, the U.S.

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2023 Engineering Project Life Cycle Technical Review 157

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 15, 2017

Amy’s spoken at a TEDTalk, served in the US Army, and is writing a book. I currently perform IT Project Management for the US Government in Stuttgart, Germany. In my career I have served as an Army Officer on Active Duty, as a contractor in the IT field for the US Government and for the past ten years as a Government Civilian.

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2007 Governance Government Construction 304

Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes !

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Seriously, how hard can Scrum be if the manual comprises of 18 pages, right?).

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Engineering 187

Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team.

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Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2021

One of the pillars of our book the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide , and the Scrum framework itself, is “Ship It Fast”. Maybe a Scrum team goes into a Sprint Review highly enthusiastic because after 3 Sprints they finally released an updated API to the staging environment. They never expected to ship this fast! What was lost?

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SCRUM Risk Management Closing Governance 233

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile? describes Scrum and brief explanations of Kanban, Scrumban, Scrum/XP.

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Software Review Agile Governance Government 52

Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

The IIL Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Executives and project governance personnel must provide project teams with the criteria for when to shut down a project. In the past, project managers made primarily technical decisions and business decisions were the responsibility of the governance personnel or senior management. Register here !

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2024 Leadership Executing Governance 78

Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

What the Scrum Guide says. So what does the Scrum Guide have to say about stakeholder management? Scrum is called a framework for a reason. I’ve used this particular practice - by instinct or accident - quite a few times and only later ended up finding it in the excellent book “Product Mastery” by Geoff Watts.

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Influencer Governance Government Innovation 164

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 181

Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. I have no clue and what this says about the quality of the book? I miss structure.

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Agile Lean Prince2 Risk Management 116

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Like the other book I reviewed ( Agile Governance and Audit ), this book too focusses on temporary project organizations using an agile way of delivery (compare PRINCE2 Agile, AgilePM, DAD, PMI Agile where we have agile teams using e.g. Scrum) and not on organizations using e.g. SAFe, LeSS or Nexus.

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Agile Prince2 Governance Government 61

Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

I posted some comments on the #NoEstimates book awhile back. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . This notion is part of the recursive Hofstadter's Law which is what the whole book is about. Several other "agile" books do the say they. Why We Need Governance.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Software Developers Software Development 35

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

The conference is focused on ‘The role of project-based governance in sustainable development: the need for institutional development’ 2022 AIPM National Conference: Gold Coast, Australia, Sun, 27 Feb 2022 – Tue, 1 Mar 2022. Global Scrum Gathering: Lisbon, Portugal, 17-19 October 2022. This is an all levels conference.

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2022 PMO Innovation Sustainability 195

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fuzzy Front End The fuzzy front end (FFE) of a project is where executives, stakeholders, and governance personnel would meet to select and prioritize projects for execution. His latest book, Project Management Next Generation: The Pillars for Organizational Excellence , co-authored with Dr. Directional complexity.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Risk Management Executing Governance 88

International Institute for Learning

MAY 24, 2023

The authors discuss the shortcomings of the waterfall approach in terms of project type, performance tracking, risk management, and governance. Dr. Kerzner is the author of bestselling books and texts, including the acclaimed Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Thirteenth Edition.

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Technical Review Agile 2009 Certification 52

Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

Instead of blindly performing the ceremonies of Scrum, what it we got super disciplined about how we decompose work and flow decisions through the organization? In my world, it’s really the difference between, let’s say, doing Scrum, right? We have to get the governance and metrics right. They took Agile mainstream.

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Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 69

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby. Scrum master.

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SCRUM Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 51

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). Scrum offers only a development cycle. The core of the book is a case study.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Cadence 53

The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

Her latest book What’s Your Catalyst? Ellis – Colin started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Stop Playing Games!,

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Healthcare PMO Influencer PMI 67

Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2021

Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. The Sprint Goal should be discussed each day at the Daily Scrum, it is ambitious but realistic as well as specific and transparent. . Pink, 2011, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Riverhead Books). Grand ideas, visions are everywhere.

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2007 2011 Risk Management 2020 214

International Institute for Learning

MAY 19, 2020

[This post is a sneak preview of Jesse Fewell’s talk at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference , and is based on his upcoming book Untapped Agility ]. That might improve quality and speed, without losing any of the documentation the government requires. That’s how it works.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a sacrilege to tweak the ‘immutable’ framework to accommodate our teams’ and organizations’ needs? Not so fast; don’t just dismiss augmenting Scrum as leaving the path, contributing to the numerous Scrumbut mutations, giving Scrum a bad name.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 147

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 1, 2016

Such transitions include shifts from functional specialization to “Jack of all Trades, Master of One” for delivery team members as well as the need for increased involvement of product owners and control/governance partners. But let’s not ignore the role of the project manager.

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Agile Governance Government Influencer 120

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

Compliance and Governance Awareness of regulatory requirements and governance structures ensures that projects comply with legal standards and organizational policies. Compliance and governance are not optional. As a critical point in this article, stakeholders and informed decision-making go together.

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Governance Government Influencer Technical Review 40

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. The corresponding book: To order (managementboek.nl): From project to product. Flow distribution makes priorities visible.

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Agile Governance Government SCRUM 82

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 27, 2020

He started his career as a project manager in 1997 and worked his way up through program manager and PMO manager to eventually head up large project departments in the private sector and government in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Rick has written 4 best selling books (Project Management That Works!, Morris, PMP. Peter Taylor.

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Healthcare Influencer PMI Consulting 61