Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
OKRs and Product Goals are both alignment tools — but they operate at different levels. How to use them together to create coherence from portfolio to team without double-counting.
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Applying the INVEST criteria to SAFe PI Objectives — how Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable goals make PI Planning outcomes more actionable and honest.
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OKR theater is when OKRs become tasks, key results become outputs, and the whole system devolves into admin. How Scrum's empirical principles — inspect, adapt, transparency — can fix what's broken in your OKR process.
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How to align Scrum team topology to strategy using OKRs and Product Goals — connecting outcome-oriented goal setting to how Scrum teams should be structured and what they should focus on.
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What does leadership outside the Scrum Team look like? A deep dive into how leaders can enable — rather than undermine — Scrum, and what the Scrum Guide doesn't tell you about the leader's role.
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A podcast conversation on how SAFe, Kanban, and Scrum complement each other — and where the friction points are when teams try to combine them.
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