Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
The SAFe rule that features must fit within a PI timebox is a proxy for deeper lean-agile principles. A practical take on when to respect it, when to flex it, and how to think about feature sizing across your Program Increment.
Read more →Agile Theater — going through the motions without the substance — is both widespread and harmful. Why it is time to demand real agility rather than agile-flavored project management.
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Practical ways to run the Spotify Squad Health Check at leadership, tribe, and cross-team levels, including facilitation patterns for larger groups.
Read more →The guided tour vs. guidebook choice in enterprise agile transformation — and why criticizing SAFe's prescriptiveness misses the real question: what problem are you trying to solve?
Read more →Part 3 of the SAFe Invitations series: combining Open Space Agility with SAFe for a truly invitation-based transformation — an experimental mashup of two field-proven change approaches.
Read more →Part 2 of the SAFe Invitations series: using a management workshop and vote-of-confidence to bring invitation-based change into the SAFe QuickStart — creating buy-in before the PI begins.
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