Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
SAFe splits product ownership between Product Manager and Product Owner. This guide explores the tradeoffs, common failure modes, and practical ways to make it work.
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A conversation with SAFe Fellow Adam Mattis on the value of flow: Flow metrics, Value Streams, and using flow as a lens for driving change management in SAFe organizations.
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Business scaling constraints live above the team and program level. Elevating agility to the company development level — where strategy, culture, and structure interact.
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Layoffs of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches don't signal agile nirvana — they signal a reckoning. What the reduction in agile roles actually means, why it's happening, and what you should do about it.
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The connection between business agility, OKRs, and private equity returns — a podcast interview on how PE portfolio companies can use OKRs to create real strategic traction.
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OKRs have become theater in most organizations — another alignment tax with little real substance. This is the reset: why OKRs work when they work, how to diagnose what's broken, and what principled OKR implementation actually looks like.
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