Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
A Portfolio Kanban is just a traffic visualization until you actively manage it. Here's what right-to-left portfolio review looks like — and how it catalyzes strategic conversations without forcing them.
Read more →‘What goes on a Portfolio Kanban card? Breaking down the information needs for portfolio-level work items — value proposition, investment hypothesis, and flow-based prioritization signals.’
Read more →Senior leaders don't have time for process discussions — yet they're the ones who need to change. How focusing on their most expensive problems, rather than new frameworks, is the way out of the change agent catch-22.
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You can't improve what you can't see. How a Portfolio Kanban board reveals what's actually flowing — and what's stuck — at the portfolio level, and what to do once you can finally see it.
Read more →Expensive problems in product development — the organizational dysfunctions that multiply waste: large batches, handoffs, queue buildup, and coordination overhead. Principled approaches to each.
Read more →When the language of agile transformation creates resistance, sometimes the most effective change work is invisible. How to embed agility principles without the label — and when going underground is the right strategy.
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