Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Fair process — transparency, voice, and clear rationale for decisions — is essential for agile to work outside the team level. Applying it at portfolio and leadership levels.
Read more →An early interview on Agile and Kanban: how Kanban complements rather than competes with Scrum, and why flow-based thinking is the missing piece in most agile implementations.
Read more →A facilitation exercise based on Daniel Pink's Drive model. Use autonomy, mastery, and purpose to diagnose motivation blockers and define concrete start/stop actions.
Read more →Why Kanban surfaces the bottleneck constraint instead of hiding it — and why this is actually a feature, not a bug. How to use the weakest link as a forcing function for systemic improvement.
Read more →FedEx Days — 24-hour innovation sprints — as a way to experience agile at full speed while generating real creative output that can feed the product backlog.
Read more →How to add iteration/sprint mechanics to the getKanban board game — making it a useful simulation for comparing time-boxed and flow-based approaches side by side.
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