Continuous Deployment: Vanity or Real Capability?
Continuous deployment is often chased as a vanity metric rather than a flow enabler. When it genuinely changes delivery, and when it creates false confidence.
Continuous deployment is often chased as a vanity metric rather than a flow enabler. When it genuinely changes delivery, and when it creates false confidence.
Apply product thinking to the portfolio change itself: iterative rollout, validated learning, and outcome-oriented milestones instead of a waterfall plan.
Optimizing for 100% utilization creates backlogs and hidden waste. Find the bottleneck, subordinate everything else, and throughput takes care of itself.
AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue) applied to change: treat agile adoption as a product and measure it with the same rigor.
How to apply product operating model principles to shared services and business operations teams to improve handoffs, flow, and business readiness.
They formed agile teams. They track stories in JIRA. They do three questions daily. And nothing meaningful changed. Agile theater, not product work.