Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
A deep-dive podcast conversation on the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course: why it exists, what it teaches, and what it means to apply Kanban within a Scrum context.
Read more →The wrong reasons people sign up for SAFe SPC certification — and what you should actually expect to get out of an Implementing SAFe workshop if you attend with the right mindset.
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User stories are a poor fit for marketing backlogs. What marketing work items should look like, why the difference matters, and how to structure a marketing backlog that actually delivers value.
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SAFe implementations often under-develop team-level Scrum discipline. How Professional Scrum training and coaching strengthens the foundation that SAFe programs are built on.
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SAFe implementations often focus on ceremonies and roles while ignoring the underlying flow. How adding Kanban-style flow metrics to your SAFe implementation makes the whole system more evidence-based.
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SAFe estimations can become a compliance theater of story points and capacity planning. An alternative approach focused on flow-based forecasting and probabilistic delivery.
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