Welcome Back: A Practical 2026 Reset for Product Teams
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...
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...
Scrum was built on a simple truth: the faster a team can inspect reality, the faster it can adapt to it. But let’s be honest, Scrum’s feedback loops were designed...
What if the only thing standing between your team and breakthrough performance is how fast you can learn? In a world where AI can surface insights in seconds, why are...
If you’ve been following along this week, we’ve been exploring why so many leaders plateau at the Achiever level, and why that becomes a ceiling when uncertainty hits. Today, we...
We're seeing a lot of volatility in the world of business today, and that's really not a new thing. What does remain the same is that business leaders don't like...
We kicked off this week with a video on Psychological Safety. Let’s face it, hybrid work is no longer an experiment; it’s the operating model for nearly every modern organization...
If you're not hearing bad news from your teams, guess what? That is the bad news.Hi, I'm Lance Dacy, otherwise known as Big Agile, and today we're going to talk...
For the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing agility beyond software teams, how entire businesses can operate in smaller loops, respond to uncertainty more quickly, and transform complexity from a...
Did You Know?Earlier this week, Cloudflare experienced a global outage that knocked out services for four hours. Their CEO, Matthew Prince, posted a note on the outage, which is rare...
You've taught your teams to inspect and adapt. Every two weeks, you're looking at what's going right or wrong. Your sprints are humming along, your retrospectives are generating real improvements...