Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Why frameworks like SAFe get criticized as prescriptive — and why the real problem is practitioners who treat a configurable framework as hard-coded rules rather than a set of principles and choices.
Read more →SAFe is not one-size-fits-all. A look at how different enterprise scenarios (large programs, rapid enhancement pipelines, fixed-scope regulatory projects) require different SAFe configuration choices.
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Applying Lean Startup validation thinking to marketing: a validation board for marketing experiments that tests assumptions before full campaign investment.
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PI Planning reveals the Agile Release Train leadership team real behaviors. What servant leadership actually looks like — and what it does not look like — during the high-pressure planning event.
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The official SAFe guidance article on Invitation-Based SAFe Implementation — how pull-based, invitation-style change management improves SAFe adoption outcomes vs mandate-driven rollouts.
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Agile marketing maturity is not a checkbox. A practical assessment of where a marketing team sits on the maturity curve — and what the next level of improvement looks like.
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