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If your team cannot tell you the truth, your roadmap is fiction, and your delivery date is a guess. The fix is not another status meeting. It is a condition...

Think about the last time a project slipped. Odds are the root cause was not a surprise. Someone saw it coming. It could be a dependency, a risky design decision...

I wanted to share some of the great research we have over the years on cross-functional teams and flow. Most organizations want agility; they get trained in the processes, but...

Before we get too far, I love velocity. Velocity is a core team metric that can help us in so many ways. However, velocity is easy to celebrate, easy to...

Alright. Yep. I'm going there. Metrics, metrics, metrics, metrics. I know we're probably all tired of hearing that, but I find in our technology world we often don't know if...

I have the privilege of working with diverse teams and leaders across a wide range of organizations. Nearly every time, I hear some variation of, “Well, here we’re unique.” They’re...

Take a look at your product metrics. If your biggest success metric is "we shipped it," you might be managing activity, not impact. And guess what? Your customers can tell...

AI is not a magic wand; it is a power tool. If you hand a power tool to a team with a dysfunctional process, you do not get faster; you...

Hi, and happy New Year. Welcome back. I'm Lance Dacy, otherwise known as Big Agile. I'm so glad to kick off our 2026 series with the theme I want to...

Whew, 2025 is over. For me, I am glad. If 2025 felt like a grind, you were not imagining it.A lot of product teams ended the year stuck in the...

Christmas Eve / Season has a way of changing the pace. The calendar doesn’t magically clear, the inbox doesn’t stop, and the world doesn’t suddenly become quiet. But if you...

Why rewriting your backlog around outcomes, not outputs, is the fastest way to escape the Feature Factory.Most product backlogs don’t reduce uncertainty. They simply catalog it, item by item, until...