Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Show me your review sessions and I can tell you if you're a feature factory or a product lab. How to shift product reviews from backlogs and deliverables to outcomes, leading indicators, and strategic traction.
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The agile theater doom loop: compliance without outcomes, ceremonies without learning, metrics without meaning. How to break the loop and build strategic agility flywheels instead.
Read more →Biotech R&D organizations applying agile principles: what they get right about empiricism that software teams lose sight of, and what cross-pollination looks like in practice.
Read more →Most transformation programs fail not because people resist change, but because they're managed like projects rather than learning systems. A diagnostic look at why — and what principled transformation looks like instead.
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Flywheels require consistent turns, not one-time framework installations. Three agility flywheels worth building — safety nets, working ON the org, and descaling — and the doom loops that destroy them.
Read more →A crossover podcast episode confronting agile industry drift toward activity for activity's sake — and what coaches, trainers, and leaders can do to refocus on meaningful outcomes over vanity metrics.
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