Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Starting your Lean Portfolio Management journey: organizing around value streams, shifting from project to product funding, and building the muscles for portfolio-level agility.
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Optimizing for 100% utilization creates inventory backlogs and hidden waste. Why Theory of Constraints thinking — find the bottleneck, subordinate everything else — is the smarter path to organizational throughput.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →The Product-Market Fit survey asks "how would you feel if you could no longer use this product?" The same question, applied internally, reveals how fit for purpose your ways of working really are.
Read more →AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue) applied to change management: treating agile adoption as a product and measuring it with the same rigor as customer-facing products.
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