Flow ·
Outcome Framing Coach: Shifting Teams from Output to Outcome
A new open-source AI agent skill to help teams rewrite their work items from output/activity language to outcome-oriented language using a simple taxonomy.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Curated reading paths through 15+ years of field writing
AI Activity to Impact
How agile operating principles help organizations actually benefit from GenAI investments instead of just spraying AI everywhere.
All posts →- › An Operating System for AI-Native Teams: From Activity to Impact
- › Before You Build The AI Agent, Find The Real Business Problem
- › How To Find AI Gold Using Lean Startup Product Techniques
- › Do You Still Need Scaling Frameworks When AI Makes Teams Faster?
- › AI Coding Made Code Review the Bottleneck. Now What?
Agility Beyond Software
Agile principles applied beyond engineering — to marketing, operations, finance, and the whole business.
All posts → Developing Your Company Like a Product
Treating internal capabilities and transformation initiatives the same way great product teams treat their products.
All posts → Product Operating Model + Product Orientation
Moving from feature factory to product-led — how teams, leadership, and the business need to change to make it real.
All posts →- › Scaling Product Organizations with Portfolio Agility
- › Discovery Is De-Risking, Not Requirements Gathering
- › Value Without Risk? Wouldn’t That Be Nice — Why Agile Is Risk-Driven Development
- › Do You Still Need Scaling Frameworks When AI Makes Teams Faster?
- › Your Scrum Team Didn't Get Obsolete. It Got Smaller, Faster, And Aimed At Bigger Work.
Fixing Your Agility
When agile transformations stall, backslide, or never really landed — diagnosing and recovering from agile gone wrong.
All posts →- › Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry's Focus on Vanity vs Outcomes
- › Transformation or Bling? What My Apple Watch Taught Me About Agile, OKRs, and Real Change
- › How To Evade Coordination Tax By Organizing Around Outcomes
- › The Value Of The Feature Factory
- › Expensive Problems >> Principles >> Practices
Leaner Portfolio Management
Getting rid of portfolio theater — funding flows, initiative ownership, and investment decisions that actually create value.
All posts →- › Scaling Product Organizations with Portfolio Agility
- › Where Does Your Portfolio Actually Sit on the Path From Project to Product?
- › Discovery Is De-Risking, Not Requirements Gathering
- › Why Focus on Flow Metrics? The Problems They Help You See
- › Is it a Product Operating Model? Or is it Stage-gates?
SAFe + Scaled Agile
Making SAFe work in the real world — connecting the framework to product thinking, agile leadership, and actual outcomes.
All posts →- › Where Does Your Portfolio Actually Sit on the Path From Project to Product?
- › How ARAS Software Is Agile about How They Scale Agile
- › Breaking Down SAFe — Strengths, Weaknesses, and Controversies
- › Tackling Strategy Theater - Fractals To The Rescue (Yet Again)
- › SAFe-ly Scaling an Agile Product Operating Model
Objectives and Key Results
OKRs done right — connecting strategy to execution without creating another layer of administrative theater.
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Scaling Product Organizations with Portfolio Agility
A work-in-progress minibook on using portfolio agility to help multi-product organizations see work clearly, improve flow, descale around outcomes, and steer strategic investments with evidence.
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Where Does Your Portfolio Actually Sit on the Path From Project to Product?
A follow-up AI coaching prompt for anyone who sat through my "Product Orientation Through LPM" talk — pressure-test one real initiative, find the real gap, and get one experiment to run in the next few weeks.
Read more →An Operating System for AI-Native Teams: From Activity to Impact
AI agents generate code faster than ever, but the bottleneck has shifted to human decision latency and review capacity. Here is the operating system that closes the gap between AI activity and business impact.
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Product ·
Discovery Is De-Risking, Not Requirements Gathering
Most organizations are great at executing projects and weak at realizing the value of their software investments. The fix isn't more discovery — it's reframing discovery as de-risking. Here's the thinking, the decision rule (Investment Conviction = Desirability × Viability × Feasibility), and an interactive tool to try it on your own initiative.
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From AI Theater to Unreasonable Agility
As AI coding tools make engineering 10x faster, bottlenecks are shifting. Discover why we must move past AI theater, token usage metrics, and defensive R&D to achieve unreasonable agility.
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