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Agility

Swarm the Constraint: Make Throughput Move

Releases kept slipping; the team’s burndowns were fine; the real problem sat in plain sight. Every change waited in a test environment queue that moved slowly, shared across products, with...

Agility

From Activity to Flow: Lean Metrics That Matter

Have you ever had this scenario?Leadership cheered a 25% spike in team velocity, then watched support tickets spike the same week. The team had divided the work into smaller stories...

Agility

Stop Chasing Velocity: The 15-Min Executive Metric Reset

Introduction: The Problem with Traditional Agile MetricsIf you're an agile coach, what metrics are you capturing? Let me guess. Is it velocity? Very common metric. We'll find if your velocity...

Agility

See the Whole: Map Your Product Value Stream

Sprint Review reports were green, yet releases kept missing the mark. In the quarterly review, a VP asked, “Where is the work actually getting stuck?” A Scrum Master pulled leaders...

Business Transformation

From Rituals to Results: Redefining Success in 2025

The CTO sat at the head of the quarterly review table, scanning a beautiful dashboard (that took us two years to develop to the state they were happy with, by...

Leadership + Organization

Scrum Masters Enable Agility Across Functions

At a global company undergoing a massive organizational redesign, the HR team had a dilemma:“How do we make our performance reviews more meaningful, less bureaucratic, and aligned with how our...

Leadership + Organization

What Leaders Actually Need from Agile Coaches

During a portfolio review, a visibly frustrated VP of Product dropped the mic: “We have eight Agile Coaches and we’re still missing deadlines. What are they even doing?”It wasn’t a...

Leadership + Organization

Coaching the System: Beyond the Scrum Team

The Scrum Master had been supporting her development team for nearly a year. Their velocity was stable, standups were doing their job, and retrospectives often wrapped up early with clearly...

Leadership + Organization

Scrum Masters Are More Strategic Than Ever

When the AI rollout initiative launched, the CTO’s instructions were clear: “We need efficiency and standards across the delivery teams. Make sure the Scrum Masters implement these standards.” It sounded...

Leadership + Organization

Redefining Success for Scrum Masters and Leaders

In a leadership meeting, an executive leaned back in his chair and asked the question that often lingers unspoken: “How do we know if our Scrum Masters are actually doing...