Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Ba — the Japanese concept of shared space and emergent knowledge — as a framework for understanding what makes high-performing agile teams different from merely co-located ones.
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Reflections on adopting a teaching mindset in coaching and consulting — when to instruct, when to ask, and how to stay genuinely curious rather than prescriptive.
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A concrete Kanban board design for a marketing team: workflow stages, WIP limits, classes of service for campaigns vs. always-on content, and metrics to track.
Read more → A starter Kanban board template for marketing teams — adapted from Henrik Kniberg's original to use marketing-domain language and workflows that click for marketers.
Read more →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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