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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 →- › 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
- › The Value Of The Feature Factory
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 →- › 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
- › How Can We Nudge a Product Team To Be More Flexible?
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.
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