Henny Portman
Netherlands


Henny Portman is partner of HWP Consulting. He has 40 years of experience in the project management domain. He was the thought leader within NN Group of the PMO domain and responsible for the introduction and application of the PMO methodologies (portfolio, programme and project management) across Europe and Asia. He trains, coaches and directs (senior) programme, project and portfolio managers and project sponsors and built several professional (PM(O) communities. He is an accredited P3O, PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, PRINCE2 Agile, AgilePM, and AgileSHIFT trainer and a SPC4 SAFe consultant and trainer too. He is a P3M3 trainer and assessor and PMO Value Ring Certified Consultant. In addition, Henny is international speaker and author of many articles and books in the PM(O) field and blogger (hennyportman.wordpress.com). Henny can be contacted at henny.portman@hwpconsulting.nl.
Profile created 7 October 2019
Articles and Papers
- The evolution of agile frameworks (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - June 2023
- Culture makes or breaks your agile transition (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - May 2023
- Kanban in a nutshell (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - April 2023
- Agile and testing (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - March 2023
- Agile management products (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - February 2023
- Slicing user stories (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - January 2023
- Self-managing or self-organizing agile teams (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - December 2022
- Being predictable as an agile team (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - November 2022
- Multitasking, task-switching or monotasking (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - October 2022
- Prioritizing in an agile team - Series Article - Portman - September 2022
- The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) unraveled (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - August 2022
- What do iterative and incremental mean in Agile? (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - July 2022
- Is an agile team always autonomous? (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - June 2022
- The ideal Scrum Master (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - May 2022
- The ideal Product Owner (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - April 2022
- Is agile always better? (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - March 2022
- What is Scrum? (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - February 2022
- Project management maturity and excellence models: Stirring in the fruit bowl - Featured Paper - Portman - February 2022
- What is Agile? (Sensemaking in the Agile Forest) - Series Article - Portman - January 2022
- TOAH and Programs - Advisory Article - Portman, Venema - August 2021
- Agile is a Mindset, Interview with Henny Portman, Advisor, Coach, Agile Thought Leader - Interview - , Portman - May 2021
- Will the Project Manager survive in the agile world? - Commentary - Portman - April 2021
- A new bird’s eye view on the Agile forest - Featured Paper - Portman - October 2020
- Project creatures that accelerate and enhance a portfolio of projects - Featured Paper - Portman, Silva - September 2020
- Are iterative and incremental the same phenomenon or not? - Advisory Article - Portman - April 2020
- A bird’s eye view of the Agile forest - Featured Paper - Portman - November 2019
- Creatures that slow down portfolio delivery and how to kill them - Featured Paper - Silva, Portman - October 2019