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Your organization can see more of its delivery system than it ever could, and the people running that system say the work is getting harder rather than easier. Both of...

Somewhere in your organization, a team added a batch of new dashboards this quarter. I'd bet on it. Delivery health, a few flow metrics for the coaches, an AI-generated rollup...

Your team shipped more last quarter than in any previous quarter, but delivery is slower than in the spring. We are pretty sure nobody stopped working. What we feel, though...

Your team shipped more code last quarter than in any previous quarter. Pull requests are up. You look at the heat map of the repo and the changes look good...

Most delegation decisions make themselves. Nobody convenes a meeting about whether AI can format a commit message, and nobody needs a framework to know that unattended production deploys are a...

I am pretty sure most of you have a list of things you let AI do, and a second list of things you would never let it near. I am...

Open your AI policy and find the sentence that says a human stays in the loop. Now pick your highest-stakes AI decision and answer one question about it. When that...

"A human will remain in the loop." That sentence is sitting in a lot of AI policies right now. Maybe yours. It sounds like a safeguard. Read it again and...

A coach I know opened the PMI Agile 2026 session catalog back in June with one goal. Find the AI sessions, and work out what she was supposed to...

Sometime in the next two weeks, someone on your team will forward you a summary of what happened at PMI Agile 2026. It will have five bolded takeaways, and you...

There is a difference between leaving a conference inspired and leaving it changed. I have been to my fair share, and I love the networking. But inspired fades somewhere over...

A product director I know got a message from her VP recently. The board had just met; the CEO wanted the company "moving on agentic AI," and finance needed a...