How To Start A Conversation About Agility
Why most agile training skips principles for practices — and how to start a conversation about agility that lands, even with skeptical leaders who want to skip straight to Day 2.
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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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What is the difference between Scaled Agile/SAFe and a Product Operating Model? (Interview on the Business Agility Now Podcast)
SAFe and the Product Operating Model are not in conflict — they can complement each other. A podcast interview exploring empowered product teams, outcome-oriented PI Planning, and why incentive alignment is the real lever.
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Mastering Organizational Traction Or Portfolio Agility?
Organizational traction and portfolio agility are the same path. Why leaders pursuing either goal inevitably arrive at the need to manage a portfolio of investments with flow-based thinking.
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When is Agile worth the Overhead?
A practical framework for deciding when and where agile methods are worth the overhead — and when simplified approaches are more effective than formal agile frameworks.
Read more →Scaling Companies Up Requires Some of The Startup Phase Scrappiness
Why scaling companies fail when they apply efficiency-tuned operating models to new product bets — and how to run a dual operating system that keeps startup scrappiness alive alongside scaled operations.
Read more →How To Choose An Owner For a Cross-Organization Initiative
A practical framework for selecting initiative owners in a product-oriented organization: why ownership is about Why and What more than How, and how to avoid the accountability vacuum on cross-product work.
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