Agility is about efficiently seeking alpha
What if the real role of agility is to help organizations seek alpha more efficiently by making it cheaper and faster to test, learn, and steer strategic bets?
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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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Curated reading paths through 15+ years of field writing
Improving AI Impact Using Agility
How agile operating principles help organizations actually benefit from GenAI investments instead of just spraying AI everywhere.
All posts →Agility Beyond Software
Agile principles applied beyond engineering — to marketing, operations, finance, and the whole business.
All posts →Developing Your Company Like a Product
Treating internal capabilities and transformation initiatives the same way great product teams treat their products.
All posts →Product Operating Model + Product Orientation
Moving from feature factory to product-led — how teams, leadership, and the business need to change to make it real.
All posts →- › Podcast Deep Dive: AI Strategy and the Operating System Mismatch (with Dave West)
- › What should Reviews look like in a Product Operating Model?
- › From Agile Theater to Product Breakthroughs: What Biotech Can Teach Us About Running Companies Like Products
- › The Irony of Managing a Product Transformation like a Project
- › From Hype/FOMO/Theater to Fit-for-Purpose: How To Use a Product Operating Model To Develop Your Product Operating Model
Fixing Your Agility
When agile transformations stall, backslide, or never really landed — diagnosing and recovering from agile gone wrong.
All posts →- › Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry's Focus on Vanity vs Outcomes
- › Transformation or Bling? What My Apple Watch Taught Me About Agile, OKRs, and Real Change
- › How To Evade Coordination Tax By Organizing Around Outcomes
- › The Value Of The Feature Factory
- › Expensive Problems >> Principles >> Practices
Leaner Portfolio Management
Getting rid of portfolio theater — funding flows, initiative ownership, and investment decisions that actually create value.
All posts →- › Is it a Product Operating Model? Or is it Stage-gates?
- › Tackling Strategy Theater - Fractals To The Rescue (Yet Again)
- › Mastering Organizational Traction Or Portfolio Agility?
- › How To Choose An Owner For a Cross-Organization Initiative
- › How To Shift from Project to Product at the Portfolio level - A Scrum.org Community Q&A Podcast
SAFe + Scaled Agile
Making SAFe work in the real world — connecting the framework to product thinking, agile leadership, and actual outcomes.
All posts →- › How ARAS Software Is Agile about How They Scale Agile
- › Tackling Strategy Theater - Fractals To The Rescue (Yet Again)
- › SAFe-ly Scaling an Agile Product Operating Model
- › What is the difference between Scaled Agile/SAFe and a Product Operating Model? (Interview on the Business Agility Now Podcast)
- › When and How To Organize Your Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
Objectives and Key Results
OKRs done right — connecting strategy to execution without creating another layer of administrative theater.
All posts →Latest Posts
Agility ·
In the Spotlight - 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.
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Podcast Deep Dive: AI Strategy and the Operating System Mismatch (with Dave West)
A deep dive into the conversation with Dave West at Scrum.org about the 95% AI failure rate and why organizations must evolve their management operating system.
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Flow ·
WIP Limits in Scrum with Kanban: Practical Guide to What, When, Who, and How
How to set and adapt WIP limits in Scrum with Kanban, including ownership, timing, and exception handling without weakening flow discipline.
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