The Story Points Detox Plan Shortcut
You don't need a new experiment to switch from velocity to flow metrics — your historical sprint data is already the experiment. A practical shortcut for the story points detox plan.
Change Management
The Change Agent Catch 22
Senior leaders don't have time for process discussions — yet they're the ones who need to change. How focusing on their most expensive problems, rather than new frameworks, is the way out of the change agent catch-22.
Expensive Problems >> Principles >> Practices
Expensive problems in product development — the organizational dysfunctions that multiply waste: large batches, handoffs, queue buildup, and coordination overhead. Principled approaches to each.
Is it Time for Our Agility Work To Go Underground?
When the language of agile transformation creates resistance, sometimes the most effective change work is invisible. How to embed agility principles without the label — and when going underground is the right strategy.
The Pricing Page for Your Change Product
Giving people options — revolutionary or evolutionary, push or pull, mandatory or invitation-based — lowers change resistance by giving back control. How to apply pricing page thinking to internal transformation.
Navigating Strategic Change using Breadcrumbs (A Halloween Story)
Revolutionary vs evolutionary change — and why both require breadcrumbs. How Roger Martin's concept of strategic breadcrumbs helps change agents design a path that works for the Early Majority, not just early adopters.