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Business Transformation

Business Agility in Action: How to Extend Scrum and Kanban Beyond IT

🧭 Why Agile Gets Stuck in ITAgile didn’t start in software because coders were special.It started there because software development exposed complexity first—fast-changing requirements, interdependent work, and uncertain outcomes.But here’s...

Product

When Brilliant Agile Teams Build the Wrong Thing: Lessons from a $2M Mistake

Not long ago, I witnessed a talented engineering team burn through $2 million in six months.Their Velocity was impressive. Sprint after Sprint, they delivered working software. Their burndown charts looked...

Leadership + Organization

Should We Return to the Office?

Five years after COVID reshaped work, the return-to-office debate hasn’t been “won”; it’s matured. In this conversation, Brian Milner and I cut through conflicting studies and personal preferences to ask...

Agility

Agile Learning Loops: How to Integrate Skill Development into Every Sprint

🚀 Why the Next Frontier of Agility Isn’t Faster Delivery, It’s Faster LearningIn most organizations, learning still exists outside the work environment. It happens in workshops, HR portals, or during...

Tips

Is Scrum Really Too Many Meetings

A common complaint on Scrum teams is, “We have too many meetings.” However, I would like to argue that the issue isn’t the number of activities in Scrum; it’s how...