A crossover podcast episode confronting agile industry drift toward activity for activity's sake — and what coaches, trainers, and leaders can do to refocus on meaningful outcomes over vanity metrics.
A conversation with Jonathan Stark on the current state of Agile as a platform — how it has matured, what platform saturation means for practitioners, and how to navigate an agile career pivot toward outcomes and away from frameworks.
Feature factories are a milestone, not a destination. Why organizations get stuck shipping features and what it takes to cross the threshold from output-focused to outcome-driven product delivery.
Continuous deployment is often pursued as a vanity metric rather than a flow enabler. The conditions under which it genuinely transforms delivery vs when it creates false confidence.
They formed agile teams. They track stories in JIRA. They do three questions daily. They've "transformed." And yet nothing meaningful has changed. The all-too-familiar gap between agile theater and real product orientation.
How to handle scope changes during a SAFe Program Increment — switching features mid-PI, updating PI Objectives, and managing the impact on predictability score without gaming the system.