Agile coaches, where are you at? Product managers, are you challenging your teams? Leaders, are you asking the right questions and looking at the right metrics? In most of the...
A team can run every event by the book and still miss every delivery date. The reflex is more coaching on the framework: a new retrospective format, a refresher, tighter...
Picture a coach working with four teams. Yes, a Scrum Master or agile coach can serve multiple teams. Every Daily Scrum stays inside its 15-minute time box. Every retrospective produces...
Your team went through AI training this year. Someone booked the session, people showed up, and a few walked out with a certificate. So why does the work still put...
A team I worked with recently had just finished an AI training course I delivered personally. Certificates all around. Everybody in the room could write a clean prompt with self-consistency...
A year ago, a product manager spent Monday grooming the backlog. Today that same person can describe a feature out loud and have three working prototypes before lunch. So a...
Picture a product manager getting ready for backlog refinement. A year ago that session meant estimating the backlog, clarifying details with the team, and breaking coarse-grained items down into something...
For most of my career, a vague requirement was survivable. Not because we caught it. Because building was slow enough that somebody asked a question first.That question was free, it...
Somebody on your team opens a ticket. Azure DevOps, Jira, whatever you use. It says: add a way for customers to export their data. Just one line. How hard could...
A pilot that stalls does not announce it. There is no meeting where somebody says this one is over. It keeps its login and its budget line, the follow-up meeting...
A few months ago I was in a room with a leadership team watching an AI pilot demo. You've been there. I've watched this scene enough times to tell it...
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...