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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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The Law of Intentionality, Environment, and Consistency

Scrum.org

You may also like: Five Invaluable Laws of Growth for Scrum Masters. In this blog, we will explore what can Scrum Masters learn from the law of intentionality, environment, and consistency. Ask yourself this question: How far can I go to make my Scrum Team truly Self-Organizing.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

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. Agile transformation, you would surmise, is a done deal with the higher-ups. They get close to the outcomes instead.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard? Drucker, P.,

2012 156
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Mitosis and Express Kickoff

Scrum.org

Context We are in the process of Agile business unit transformation, with 15 teams and dedicated functions (marketing, magazine, CRM) creating a product ecosystem for SMBs ( small and medium-sized businesses). We suggested scaling correctly and using Scrum-pattern mitosis instead. We call this product fragmentation.

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

This is a magazine site that seems to make its money through site adverts and affiliate links. Stefan Wolpers gets deep into Agile, and Scrum in particular. They are worth a look if you want a short nugget, but they are definately PM fast food, offering little nutrition. If you like it, bookmark it. PM World 360. Age of Product.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . In the Agile method, the project manager is replaced by an experienced Scrum master is needed. The scope is not properly and completely defined. The customer should be involved from the start of the project in defining and planning the project. .