From Agile Theater Doom Loop to Strategic Agility Flywheels
The agile theater doom loop: compliance without outcomes, ceremonies without learning, metrics without meaning. How to break the loop and build strategic agility flywheels instead.
Change Management
From FOMO to JOMO
Adopting AI (or Agile, or OKRs) out of FOMO almost always turns into JOMO — the Joy of Missing Out. A five-question framework for connecting any initiative to your most expensive problems before you commit.
The Irony of Managing a Product Transformation like a Project
If you're selling a product transformation but managing it like a project — tracking vanity metrics, avoiding kill criteria, and measuring outputs — you're doing exactly what you're asking others to stop doing.
From Hype/FOMO/Theater to Fit-for-Purpose: How To Use a Product Operating Model To Develop Your Product Operating Model
Alice is ambitious, Bob has a real problem, Charlie has FOMO. Only one of them will get real value from a Product Operating Model. How to approach any transformation initiative with product-led thinking instead of hype.
How To Manage a Product Transformation Project
Transformations managed like projects fail for the same reason projects fail in complex domains. Managing a product transformation with agility — iterative, evidence-based, and outcome-focused.
From Blueprints To Trail Maps
Why comprehensive blueprints for agile portfolio transformations fail — and why a trail map approach (visualize flow, shape flow, organize, steer with evidence) works better in practice.