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This sound familar?Your team starts with 30 items. They finish 10. Cycle time is three sprints. Add context-switching tax, and it becomes four sprints. Same people, same capacity, four times...

Yes, that title is supposed to sting a little. It is also accurate, and so I wanted to expand upon my recent engagement. I was working with an internal IT...

Ever notice how a team can be slammed? Calendars are packed, Slack is on fire, and yet the same important work is still "almost done" for weeks. Maybe it's just...

Psychological safety has become a leadership priority, which is a positive sign. It means leaders are paying attention to the human cost of how work gets done.The trouble is that...

If your team cannot tell you the truth, your roadmap is fiction, and your delivery date is a guess. The fix is not another status meeting. It is a condition...

Think about the last time a project slipped. Odds are the root cause was not a surprise. Someone saw it coming. It could be a dependency, a risky design decision...

I wanted to share some of the great research we have over the years on cross-functional teams and flow. Most organizations want agility; they get trained in the processes, but...

Before we get too far, I love velocity. Velocity is a core team metric that can help us in so many ways. However, velocity is easy to celebrate, easy to...

Alright. Yep. I'm going there. Metrics, metrics, metrics, metrics. I know we're probably all tired of hearing that, but I find in our technology world we often don't know if...

I have the privilege of working with diverse teams and leaders across a wide range of organizations. Nearly every time, I hear some variation of, “Well, here we’re unique.” They’re...

Take a look at your product metrics. If your biggest success metric is "we shipped it," you might be managing activity, not impact. And guess what? Your customers can tell...

AI is not a magic wand; it is a power tool. If you hand a power tool to a team with a dysfunctional process, you do not get faster; you...