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In the PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue I, January 2025 you can find my article: Portman, H. (2025). The rules every project manager faces daily, commentary, PM World Journal , Vol. XIV, Issue I, January. As a project manager, youve probably felt like youre battling invisible forces at times. Take Murphys Law, for example: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
I received several requests to provide the tabs for the official PRINCE2 manual. Attached the cheap one: print the pdf on sticker paper and use a scissors. PRINCE2_7_v1 Download To order the manual: managementboek.
In 2024 I reviewed many books and created several corresponding quick reference cards. The counter till so far: 348 book reviews, 143 QRCs. PMO Review Individual Competence Baseline Reference Guide ICB4 for PMO Review Projects: Methods: Outcomes Summary and review PMO Principles and PMO Services Principles Second Edition and Organizational, Portfolio, Program, and Project Principles Portfolio Management Review P5.express The minimalist portfolio management system Review Unlocking Business Agil
A significant shift in emphasis is transforming key areas of project management. The focus has moved from output to outcome, prioritizing the delivery of sustainable value for organizations and stakeholders. Leadership now takes precedence over management, emphasizing seamless collaboration across all levels and roles within a project. Processes have given way to people, empowering collaborative, creative, and problem-solving individuals to drive project success.
Organizational Project Management Theory and Implementation by Ralf Mller, Nathalie Drouin and Shankar Sankaran. The book starts with an introduction to organizational project management (OPM) followed by three parts explaining the OPM model, theories and the OPM model and applications of the OPM model. Onion model of OPM The seven layers of the onion model encompass the entire organizational scope, ranging from individual projects to their governance, structural integration within the organiza
Thirteen years ago, Steve Jenner and Craig Kilford wrote the official guide Management of Portfolios (MoP). Now there is a new guide, the successor of the MoP guide named Managing portfolios – Optimizing strategic contribution by Steve Jenner. Managing portfolios in a nutshell Managing Portfolios (MP) operates on five core principles and is structured around twelve practices organized into two dimensions: “Designing the Portfolio” and “Delivering the Portfolio.” These
The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery. By unlocking the principles of lean, agile, value stream management (VSM), and leveraging digital advancements, the book guides readers on how to effectively streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and drive business r
Unblock – Clear the Way for Results and Develop a Thriving Organization by Jurriaan Kamer is a practical and easy-to-read book, rich with real-life examples. The title highlights the importance of identifying and removing blockages that hinder an organization’s ability to achieve its goals. These blockages disrupt the flow between different parts of the system, reducing overall effectiveness.
‘The handbook of project portfolio management’ edited by Dennis Lock and Reinhard Wagner offers 39 articles written by different authors and clustered in five areas: foundations of portfolio management, the practice of portfolio management, prerequisites for portfolio management, managing portfolios and developing capabilities in portfolio management.
Every day, we are confronted with alarming news about climate change, making sustainability more crucial than ever. This is precisely why ‘Sustainability in Project Management’ by Gilbert Silvius, Ron Schipper, Julia Planko, Jasper van den Brink, and Adri Köhler remains a valuable read, even more than a decade after its release. The book’s timeless insights into sustainable project management are just as relevant today as they were when it was first published, offering essential guidance f
Dr. Eli Goldratt once stated that he would eventually replace Critical Chain Project Management. Although he passed away in 2011, his daughter, Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag, authored “Goldratt’s Rules of Flow,” a book that could be seen as the one Eli wanted to write but never did. This book focuses on managing multiple projects and aims to deliver as many right projects as possible in the shortest lead time.
“ Portfolio Management – Delivery on Strategy ” edited by Carl Marnewick and John Wyzalek, presents a collection of 12 articles from various authors. The book focuses on the benefits of portfolio management to organizations, emphasizing specific aspects within the discipline and how each should be managed from a business perspective rather than strictly a portfolio management perspective.
“ The Courageous Sponsor – How to overcome challenges to get your project done ” by Annie Sheehan helps project sponsors to improve their project outcomes. It offers practical lessons, cases, templates, checklists and actions. The book takes you on a journey up the sponsorship productivity ladder, starting from level one, where sponsorship behavior is categorized as paralyzed, and a project that is out of the game.
The latest PMI Pulse of the Profession 2024 Report shows that hybrid gains ground as the fit-for-purpose approach, reflecting comparative data from 2022 and 2023. While the agile methodology has seen a slight decline in usage from 27% to 24.6%, and Waterfall has also decreased from 47% to 43.9%, the hybrid model has notably risen from 26% to 31.5%. An increasing number of organizations are encountering challenges in their agile transformations.
These two books can be enjoyed independently, yet they share a significant connection through their central theme of principles and the fact that a PMO is part of the broader PPM environment too. It’s intriguing to explore the extent to which they also align with each other in terms of consistency. PMO Principles and PMO Services Principles In “ PMO Principles and PMO Services Principles – How to Build a Principle-based PMO ,” Robert Joslin presents principles as a toolkit for
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner show with the book How Big Things Get Done – The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration , what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures. Flyvbjer identifies the errors in judgement and decision-making that lead projects to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with your projects.
The book Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice – Thirty Case Studies from around the World by Jamal Moustafaev briefly explains project portfolio management by looking at the three pillars of project portfolio management: Project value. Projects selected must maximize the value for the company (Scoring matrix, e.g. strategic fit, resources required, technical feasibility, financial value, riskiness, joker project concept).
The AI Revolution in Project Management by Vijay Kanabar and Jason Wong provide prompts to assist you in the following project manager related tasks: stakeholder management, building and managing teams, choosing a development approach, planning for predictive project, adaptive projects, monitoring project work performance, risk management, and finalizing projects.
Generative AI has the potential to unlock significant productivity benefits. This framework, created by the Central Digital and Data Office of UK Government, aims to help readers understand generative AI, to guide anyone building generative AI solutions, and, most importantly, to lay out what must be taken into account to use generative AI safely and responsibly.
Mastering Project Uncertainty – A Systems Thinking Approach by Paul Cuypers offers a theoretical framework and practical models, tools, techniques, and guidelines to systematically minimize uncertainty, thereby increasing the chances of project success. The book is divided in two parts. The first part offers the theoretical foundation and the second part the strategies.
The book Projects: Methods: Outcomes – The new PMO Model for True Project and Change Success by Peter Talor offers the author’s view of building a global PMO he is running. His Global PMO is build around three teams: Projects Team focused on onboarding, education, certification, support, community, and project manager career. Methods Team focused on the “how”, the framework for common project delivery whilst offering flexibility on approach, depending on project scale, partnership, and servic
This new IPMA standard defines the competences for the individuals working in PMO. All the competences are aligned with the IPMA ICB that is used by all the project, programme or portfolio managers in their everyday activities. A PMO has three main activities: Design – the creation, establishment and maintenance of standards, processes, procedures, and tools that define how work should be done inside.
P5.express uses a cyclical system to make the portfolio management activities more straightforward and regular. There are biannual, monthly, and daily cycles, each focusing on one aspect of portfolio management activities. In addition to the process, there are 5 portfolio management documents (portfolio description, value generation matrix, global follow-up register, global health register, and business cases) and two roles (portfolio board and portfolio manager).
In Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management – Satisfy customers and improve organizational effectiveness , authors Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, and Ryan Ripley use the framework Evidence-Based Management (EBM). EBM is an empirical approach that helps organizations use experimentation and rapid feedback to progress towards goals.
In 2023 I reviewed many books and created several corresponding quick reference cards. In 2023 the English version of the book Agile Portfolio Management I wrote together with Rini van Solingen was published (order at Amazon: [link] ). Also the new PRINCE2 7 guide was published (I was part of the author team and took the process chapters for my account).
Alexandra Stokes reveals in her book Empowered Agile Transformation – Beyond the Framework , how large and small organizations have achieved a successful transformation without large consultancies or heavy agile frameworks. What steps do you have to take to start with and achieve a successful transformation. There is no ‘one way’ to transform an organization.
This eBook starts by identifying the key characteristics of a disruption-ready organization and outlines four essential best practices for effective product portfolio prioritization amidst the backdrop of disruption. Proactive product organizations need a portfolio management strategy with two key components: An organizational mindset that allows them to adapt effectively in the face of disruptions: Organizational readiness Resilience Suite of capability-driven best practices for effective repri
In Beyond agile auditing – Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practices , Clarissa Lucas explains what it means to audit with agility. It focuses on a value-driven, integrated, adaptable approach to the internal audit. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is focusing on the past, present, and future of internal audit.
Practical product management for product owners – Creating winning products with the professional product owner stances by Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman is an awesome book for product owners and provides effective behaviors, useful tools, concepts, and techniques to become great product owners. The book is built around the six preferred stances of a product owner.
After more than two years work it’s great to finally see the PRINCE2 7th Edition transition from idea to reality. The 7th Edition is human centric, AI/data analytics ready, tackles sustainability head on, more flexible than ever and much much more. I was part of a great author team. Thanks to John Edmonds FAPM Vicky Hunter Emily Rebecca Holbrook Szymon Pawłowski, PMP Jo Lucas Tanja van den Akker Brad Bigelow Richard Rose Sue Taylor Michelle Rowland Marisa Silva, the Lu
I am honored to be on the list of the World PMO Influencer of the Year Award with these amazing and extraordinary people. The eighth semi-finalists: Andy Jordan Bill Dow, PMP, ITIL, CSM, SA, PMPO, Prosci Hussain Bandukwala Lindsay Scott Mario H Trentim Dr. Robert Joslin ¦ CEng, ACE, IPMO-E, PfMP, PgMP, PMP Stuart Taylor Henny Portman According to the PMO Global Alliance: “ PMO Global Alliance is thrilled to announce the eighth semi-finalists for the highly anticipated World PMO Influencer of the
To support portfolios, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA, UK Government) has the mandate to periodically (every two to three years) review departmental portfolios to provide assurance and practical recommendations for improvement. The review aims to provide a realistic view on a portfolio’s ability to: manage the portfolio’s strategic alignment and appropriate construction in line with delivery constraints. monitor and respond to performance and risk across the portfolio. build the
Deming’s journey to profound knowledge – How Deming helped win a war, altered the face of industry, and holds the key to our future by John “Botchagalupe” Willis may look like a biography of Deming, but it’s the story behind the story of his masterwork, which he shared with the world when he was ninety-three years old. Just after he passed away in 1993, Deming’s book The New Economics was published.
With the book Thinking on Bets – Making smarter decisions when you don’t have all the facts , former world Series of Poker champion Annie Duke gives us the tools to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. The book is pleasantly written, consists of six chapters and offers both theory and practice with frequent analogies being sought to her experience as a poker player.
The book Project, Programme and portfolio governance (P3G), by Ross Garland and Adrian Morey is a comprehensive and practical guide to realize optimum outcomes and benefits characterized by: Right decisions at the right time Right people in the right roles Right accountabilities, responsibilities and delegated authority Right structure Right information.
2022 was again an extremely fruitful book review year. As one of the 6 judges for the managementboek of the year contest I read 90+ books. We agreed to be very careful when writing about these books, so with some exceptions you will not find those reviews on this blog. You can stil find around 30 book reviews including 10 corresponding quick reference cards and several personal insights, and views on specific topics in the field of project, program and portfolio management, as well as many artic
Happy to see that one of my articles regarding the evolution of agile frameworks is now available in Portugese too. It is published in Project Design Management (MundoPM) no 107 – Nov 2022. ed107_artigo12 Download.
Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. This first English version could be seen as a third edition (see below for the differences between this and the second Dutch edition). 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.
Now that I am working on a book on agile portfolio management, I was curious about this book. Looking at the title I was thinking am I too late? After reading the book I am even more energized to deliver the agile portfolio management book. This book is all about prescriptive or control-based portfolio management. The outcome-driven organization – Your project portfolio running on espresso 2 nd Edition , written by Linda E.
Happy to see that TSO published my latest book. Looking for guidance and overviews of PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, P3O, MoR, AgileSHIFT, P3M3 than this book will help. Do you come across daily challenges when managing portfolios, programmes, or projects? No matter what role you have in the portfolio, programme, or project team, you will find practical solutions in this guide to help you perform more effectively and achieve your strategic objectives.
Nice to see that the Finnish magazine PROJEKTI Maailma 2 2022 posted my article The revolution of agile frameworks. The article reflects the keynote speech during 3PMO-tapahtuma 8.6.2022. portman-vedos-2-pm-2022-2 Download.
The professional agile leader – The leader’s journey toward growing mature agile teams and organizations by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner and Laurens Bonnema provides a detailed understanding of the leader’s role in an agile transformation. When talking about reasons why so many agile transformations fail, I often show a picture of two rhinos colliding, and saying that this is the reason why.
The book PMO Services and Capabilities – Including an overview of AIPMO’s competence framework – Competences per PMO service – Techniques and tools per PMO service is written by Robert Joslin. This book is unique as it addresses in a systematic and structured way for each PMO service including the associated attributes how to implement service to provide the right service to the right people at the right moment.
The book Remote Team Interactions Workbook – Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working written by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explores several aspects of team-first remote work including highlighting poor team interactions, the usage of the team-API pattern to define and communicate the focus of teams, to remove team-level dependencies, to design inter-team communications and make use of the three team interaction modes from Team Topologies to help.
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