Agility ·
Transformation or Bling? My Apple Watch and OKRs
A fancy watch tells time. An Apple Watch changed behavior. Same with Agile, OKRs, and SAFe — they either transform how you work or become theater.
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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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Can AI Really Speed Up Product Discovery?
AI tools promise to speed up product discovery — but do they? A close look at where AI actually helps, and where the bottleneck is still human judgment.
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Agility ·
How can AI REALLY help you build better products?
Practical patterns for using AI across the product development flywheel — from discovery and validation to faster build cycles and better feedback loops.
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Quarterly OKR Planning Without the Theater
Quarterly big room OKR planning often gets dismissed as theater. A practical approach to align teams, surface dependencies, and set goals people believe.
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Blog ·
Michael Gerharz on Escaping Agile Theater
A conversation about escaping Agile theater by communicating in business language and linking transformation work to real outcomes.
Read more →Cut Coordination Tax: Organize Around Outcomes
The real cost of cross-functional initiatives is coordination tax. How Gillette cut it by organizing focused virtual teams around outcomes — and how you can.
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