ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

2019 385

2019 Underperforming Technical Team 2018 Leadership 385

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Agility and Certainty. There are plenty of project management commentators to remind you of the rise of agile. There are also plenty of agile zealots who will tell you, variously, that traditional PM is dead… or that it ought to be! And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

2023 370

2023 Underperforming Technical Team 2022 Leadership 370

Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" 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. Yet it's also the sticking point.

Agile 195

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Executing 195

Musings on Project Management

APRIL 12, 2020

I was looking back at some prior essays on Agile and came across the April 2012 PMNetwork magazine. Here are a couple of quotes from Jim Highsmith worth tucking away: Agile project management embraces both “doing” agile and “being” agile—and the latter is the hardest.

Agile 170

Agile 2012 170

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams. So where do you find it? How to assess the quality of scientific research.

Agile 218

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 218

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Everything wrong with agile – Half the work in twice the time is the first agilecartoons book by Michael Küsters. The 70 ridiculous agile situations are clustered in 8 groups: Let’s transform. Diplomatic solution Toxic behaviours Custom Kanban No plan Dogmatic Scrum Cost centre budgeting Agile road construction.

Software Review 119

Software Review Agile Construction SCRUM 119

Henny Portman

MARCH 17, 2021

Xebia published an interactive e-magazine Agile NXT ‘ 12.5 years AGILE in the Netherlands – more than a decade of agile captured in compelling stories and next steps for the future’. He doesn’t believe in agile leadership exists. It includes a link to the customer story Agile transformation at ING.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Agile 2015 Leadership 118

Musings on Project Management

AUGUST 2, 2017

I was looking back at some prior essays on Agile and came across the April 2012 PMNetwork magazine. Here are a couple of quotes from Jim Highsmith worth tucking away: Agile project management embraces both “doing” agile and “being” agile—and the latter is the hardest.

Agile 150

Agile 2012 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Membership of professional bodies normally comes with a journal or magazine. Or simply pull up an article on your favorite PM website, or a case study in a magazine and talk about what you would do in that situation. Check out what your local community college is offering as evening classes or weekend study. Take an e-learning course.

2020 351

2020 PMI Certification Technical Review 351

Musings on Project Management

APRIL 12, 2017

I was looking back at some prior essays on Agile and came across the April 2012 PMNetwork magazine. Here are a couple of quotes from Jim Highsmith worth tucking away: Agile project management embraces both “doing” agile and “being” agile—and the latter is the hardest.

Agile 150

Agile 2012 150

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We all know Peter Drucker’s famous quote ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ and I transformed that into ‘Culture makes or breaks your agile transition’. For me this is reason number one why so many agile transitions fail. This article was published in the Blue Striped Frog magazine.

Agile 117

Agile 117

Henny Portman

APRIL 1, 2020

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto is “ Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential ”. If you look at some agile frameworks or ways of working, you can ask yourself if the rule makers force you to be rule taker or rule breaker. Agile framework or way of working. Agile manifesto.

Agile 85

Agile Prince2 Innovation Governance 85

MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Agile PPM & Project. One of the key investment areas was Agile. Even Team Foundation Server (TFS) has grown into the new Azure DevOps (Visual Studio) for developers, proving better alignment for Epics, User Stories, Sprints, Requirements, and connecting source code directly to Agile constructs. Understanding Agile.

Agile 89

Agile Technical Review Software Review 2006 89

Scrum.org

APRIL 4, 2023

This case is just an episode of Agile transformation in a business unit of several hundred people. 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).

SCRUM 172

SCRUM Web Development Agile Executing 172

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2021

com/2021/05/18/recensie-toolkit-voor-agile-coaches-en-scrum-masters/ [link] hennyportman.wordpress.com /2021/05/14/recensie-superkrachten/ [link]. com/2021/05/18/recensie-toolkit-voor-agile-coaches-en-scrum-masters/ [link] hennyportman.wordpress.com /2021/05/14/recensie-superkrachten/ [link]. 15 juli 2021 Is Agile altijd beter? ,

2021 115

2021 Lean Agile SCRUM 115

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

My quest for agile frameworks, ways-of-working or methods is finished. Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is Agile Scrum? Some years ago, you could say “ Scrum is agile ” and ask “ is Agile Scrum? ” pmwj98-oct2020-portman-a-new-birds-eye-view-on-agile-forest-v3.0-1 1 Download.

Agile 103

Agile 2019 2020 SCRUM 103

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I think agile projects tend to have agile retrospectives at the end of a sprint, so the culture is there in our methodology. You did ask me about what I’m working on at the moment, and I’m doing a report for the APM Project Magazine, looking at lessons learned and how social media is used within lessons learned.

Risk Management 162

Risk Management Risk Closing Initiating 162

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 11, 2017

I’m not an Agile expert by an means but if Scrum is your wheelhouse, this could be a good event to get to. Agile and Beyond: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 4-5 May 2017. I figured I should include a few more Agile events this year! This was briefly featured in one of the PMI magazines and I made a note to find out more.

2017 150

2017 2016 PMI 2015 150

Henny Portman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

(article) Project creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of projects (article) Podcast: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (article) My “Bird’s eye view in the agile forest” article translated in Russian (article) PMWJ article: Are incremental and iterative the same phenomenon or not? Agile related books.

2020 105

2020 Technical Review Prince2 2011 105

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Step into a flexible, agile way of responding to customer needs and changing priorities with intelligent alignment. Rated the best software for complex projects by PC Magazine, smarter planning – and smarter prioritization improvements – is a click away. It helps teams prioritize, predict and perform with confidence.

Executing 158

Executing Software Engineering Estimate 158

Henny Portman

APRIL 8, 2019

I give a lot of workshops and presentations and in many cases, attendees ask for the ‘silver bullet’ to become agile. It is far too short-sighted to think that you have to implement one agile framework and you achieve agility. See my blog: A birds eye view on the agile frameworks forest ). How Agile is Our Human Brain?

2019 65

2019 Agile Sustainability Innovation 65

Binfire

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . This statement is by no means against using Agile project management. The agile method is not the advocate for lack of planning. On the contrary, Agile requires careful planning in dividing the project into sprints. Click To Tweet .

Underperforming Technical Team 101

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Estimate 101

Henny Portman

AUGUST 26, 2022

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.

Agile 59

Agile 2022 59

Leading Answers

JUNE 21, 2019

Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. This is not how agile retrospectives are supposed to operate. An excellent guide to running effective retrospectives is  Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great  by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

Innovation 109

Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2015 109

Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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.

2017 80

2017 2019 Prince2 2018 80

Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

2019 nr 26, is an updated version of the 50 shades of gray between agile and waterfall story I presented during the last NTPM 2019 conference in Gda?sk, For each perspective I look into the traditional and agile view and what’s in between. sk, Poland. To visit the PMI Poland Chapter site: strefapmi.pl.

Agile 58

Agile 2019 PMI Leadership 58

Henny Portman

JUNE 4, 2020

I am pleased to inform you that my featured paper “ A bird’s eye view on the agile forest ” has been translated and published in Russian by the Magazine of COBHET (SOVNET), the Russian Project Management Association, with the title “????? ????????????? ? ?????? ????????????”. To download: [link].

Agile 58

Agile 2019 58

Henny Portman

JULY 10, 2019

This is XEBIA’s second edition of AGILE NXT (see AGILE NXT for the first edition). This time you get approximately twenty articles to bring you up to speed with new insights for agile performance management. Diamond Agile: Measuring What’s Meaningful (by Frank Verbruggen). Curious to read the magazine?

Agile 58

Agile Development Team Review Influencer Sustainability 58

Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 14, 2018

And we mustn’t forget that there are other widely used hashtags in the #PMOT community, like #Agile, #PMO, and #PMP. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Chris’s Article at Online PM Courses: Why You can No longer Ignore Agile Methodologies. Developing Leaders.

PMO 96

PMO Underperforming Technical Team PMI Technical Review 96

Proofhub

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

He is the founder of MAKE IT MANA marketing agency and Editor of Better Business Tools online magazine. Setting time aside on a regular basis to review productivity and seek new ways to boost it can result in huge increases in profit over time. Author Bio: Owain is a content writer, marketer, and agency owner.

Energy 142

Energy Software Review Finance Process 142

Leading Answers

JULY 20, 2018

Kevin Kelly, futurist and founding executive editor of Wired magazine, says in his TED talk: “ Everything that we have electrified, we are now going to cognify ”. Agile tool vendor Atlassian, already provide project assistants that help with budgets, estimates, and sprint management.

Artificial Inteligence 79

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 2018 2003 79

Taskque

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Guerrilla PM – Being Agile is the next big thing. PM Network – This monthly magazine reviews the latest tools, techniques, and best practices leverage by top-level project managers.

2018 86

2018 PMI Software Review Leadership 86

Online PM Courses

JULY 8, 2018

in Agile practices 30 PDUs in Agile topics. For PMI-ACP… Your contact hours must explicitly cover agile practices. Agile training can include topics covering agile philosophy, methodologies, principles and practices. Reading (books, magazines, web-articles like ours ). CAPM 23 hours. PMP 35 hours.

PMI 94

PMI Certification Agile Technical Review 94

Resource Guru

MARCH 4, 2019

Whether a company is transforming through an acquisition, introducing Agile for the first time, or just starting out with a new leave management system , the time and effort needed to plan and deploy a change initiative must come from somewhere. Business agility means resource complexity. Solution: Try Agile capacity planning.

2019 84

2019 Planning Software Review 2009 84

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

To to support all of our clients in this time of global crisis, we are offering free registration to our self-paced, online course on Virtual Agile Teams Learn More. Read a magazine or a book, or catch up on personal messages. Day to Day Operations. Get dressed!! Don’t make the mistake of lounging in your pajamas.

PMI 94

PMI Closing Agile Leadership 94

Binfire

AUGUST 15, 2017

In fact, most projects in high tech using Agile project management method don’t employ certified project managers. Project Times – A nicely done magazine about project management. Who needs project management certification? Not all projects and industries need project management certification.

Certification 97

Certification Project Life Cycle PMI Construction 97

Binfire

OCTOBER 29, 2022

This could mean anything from becoming an expert in Agile methodology to focusing on change management or risk management. This could include trade magazines, online blogs, and even white papers from leading companies in the field. Read industry publications.

Certification 78

Certification Energy PMI Consulting 78