Your AI Portfolio Needs Less WIP, Not More Ideas
Most AI portfolios suffer from the same disease: too many pilots, too many ideas, not enough kill criteria. Portfolio flow beats AI idea theater.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership: written from 15+ years in the field.
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Portfolio WIP: It's Not About Limits
Every time I introduce a portfolio Kanban, somebody asks about WIP limits. At the portfolio level my answer is usually: don't limit WIP: at least not that way.
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Agility ·
Building and Operating Your Revenue Machine
A practical conversation on why strong sales and GTM leaders must run today's business while continuously improving the system that creates tomorrow's results.
Read more →From Program Kanban to Portfolio Flow
I revisited my 2011 talk on scaling Kanban from team to program and portfolio. What still holds up, and what I would change today.
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Kanban WIP Limits for Spec-Driven Agentic Development
When you are running specs through coding agents, the spec is the work in progress. WIP limits are the valve that keeps agentic throughput from piling up in front of the humans who still have to review it.
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Product Operating Model, or Just Stage-Gates?
Many orgs claim a Product Operating Model but keep stage-gate thinking under the surface. How to tell the difference and what to do about it.
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