Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Curated reading paths through 15+ years of field writing
How agile operating principles help organizations actually benefit from GenAI investments instead of just spraying AI everywhere.
All posts →Agile principles applied beyond engineering — to marketing, operations, finance, and the whole business.
All posts →Treating internal capabilities and transformation initiatives the same way great product teams treat their products.
All posts →Moving from feature factory to product-led — how teams, leadership, and the business need to change to make it real.
All posts →When agile transformations stall, backslide, or never really landed — diagnosing and recovering from agile gone wrong.
All posts →Getting rid of portfolio theater — funding flows, initiative ownership, and investment decisions that actually create value.
All posts →Making SAFe work in the real world — connecting the framework to product thinking, agile leadership, and actual outcomes.
All posts →OKRs done right — connecting strategy to execution without creating another layer of administrative theater.
All posts →
AI agents make it remarkably easy to start and generate work. Here is how I would use WIP, work item age, cycle time, and throughput when code review and customer learning cannot keep up.
Read more →
Most Kanban boards stop at release, which quietly teaches teams that deployment is success. If you want impact, make outcome and impact visible in the flow.
Read more →
Flow metrics aren't useful because metrics are good. They're useful when important work is slow, blockers show up late, and forecasts keep missing.
Read more →
Most of your scaling apparatus is now optional. Your first principles are not. A companion for leaders running SAFe while adopting AI-native, spec-driven development, and trying to tell the difference.
Read more →
Is Scrum still relevant when agents write the code? Yes, and more than before, provided you are willing to customize it. A companion to the Scrum Guide walking the accountabilities, events, artifacts, and values for a team running an AI-native, spec-driven lifecycle.
Read more →
A companion to the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams for AI-native product teams. What changes in your Definition of Workflow, WIP limits, flow metrics, and Scrum events once agents do the building, and what happens to scaling when the old dependencies start dissolving.
Read more →