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Overview of my year 2020 book reviews

Henny Portman

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. Project/programme management.

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The Complete Guide to Six Sigma Methodology

Wrike

In this article, we’ll explain what the Six Sigma methodology is, how lean Six Sigma principles differ, and how Six Sigma project management can help boost your organization’s process efficiency and quality. A look at the lean Six Sigma principles. Six Sigma explained. At its core, Six Sigma is a quality improvement program.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

Dedicated to provide PM articles, detailed PM software reviews, PM book reviews, and the latest news for the most popular web-based collaboration tools: Project-Management.com. Technology enthusiast, and 3 times Microsoft Project MVP. PM Today Magazine: @ ProjectMToday. Project Management: @ PMArticles. jeremycottino.com.

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The Project Management Starter Guide: for Non-Project Managers

Workzone

But maybe you’ve never created a mockup from this photoshoot, with this kind of copy, and for this month’s magazine of, say, Women’s Health. So be the rock your team can lean on. Be Tech-Savvy: Technology is having us communicate, lead, manage, and track more efficiently than ever before. Because they will.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Harvard business review has written an interesting article titled why even good projects fail anyway. Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . is it due to lack of planning? A lean team is ideal for working on a project since too many people could actually do more harm than good.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

In any enterprise that depends heavily on information systems, business agility is not possible without technical agility. Once a technology becomes part of the environment it tends to stay there, even after the shine wears off. It makes them hesitant to make significant changes in the technical environment.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. And so you think about it, matrixed organizations are a problem, like technical coupling of cohesion issues are a problem. So, (unintelligible) a pretty smart guy.