41% of the code your team shipped last quarter was written by a machine. If your team hasn't hit that number yet, you're headed there soon. But here's what I...
Last month, I sat with a VP of Product at a mid-size software company. She pulled up a slide deck from fourteen months ago, the one that got her AI...
You have been in the room. Two days of PI planning that produced a roadmap everyone quietly knew would change in six weeks. A standup where eight people report to...
Someone in your organization right now is asking whether you should still be doing Agile. Well, first of all, you can't really "do" Agile, but most of us know what...
Most product teams have a delivery model. Very few have a learning model. That gap is what determines who adapts fast enough to matter in 2026.Both models ship work. Both...
Your team shipped everything on the roadmap this quarter. The metrics look great. And yet you're not sure if any of it mattered.That gap between what you delivered and whether...
Your deployment frequency dropped last Tuesday. Your lead time is up this sprint. A stakeholder is already asking for an explanation. Here is the most important question nobody is asking...
The other day, a team I was working with had a bad sprint. Velocity dropped, stakeholders were upset, but guess who panicked the most? The CTO — who happened to...
Most transformation frameworks were built for a world that no longer exists. A world with stable leadership, co-located teams, and one big change initiative at a time. Modern product organizations...
You sent your whole team through a two-day training course. They got their certificates. They said the right things in the hallway for about a week. They were catalyzed, they...
I think about this often. I feel like our teams are not underperforming because they lack talent, tooling, or process. In most of the organizations I work with, the ceiling...
Here's one thing I rarely hear anyone say out loud at the leadership offsite: the biggest drag on your team's performance is probably not a process problem. I don't believe...