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...
💡 The Core IdeaInflation punishes rigidity. When we are scared, uncertain, or simply nervous, we clinch. It’s human nature, it’s normal. When you have people in your care span, at...
We are five years into the post-COVID economy, and the world's still wobbling in my opinion. I mean, we've seen some ups and downs and maybe some brief stability here...
Did You Know?A recent piece by CodeGood laid bare what many executives refuse to see: the best engineers aren’t leaving because of pay, perks, or ping-pong tables. They’re leaving because...
Did You Know?In October 2025, AWS experienced a major outage in its US-East-1 region. The event, which lasted roughly 15 hours and impacted thousands of companies and millions of users...
🧭 Why Agile Gets Stuck in ITAgile didn’t start in software because coders were special.It started there because software development exposed complexity first—fast-changing requirements, interdependent work, and uncertain outcomes.But here’s...
You've done the scrum training, you've completed the team forming agreements, and you've enhanced your branching and merging strategy. For all intents and purposes, your scrum teams are moving faster...
Not long ago, I witnessed a talented engineering team burn through $2 million in six months.Their Velocity was impressive. Sprint after Sprint, they delivered working software. Their burndown charts looked...
Ok, most of you agilistas probably know much of the introduction here about agile, but we get better over time framing it (I think). So bear with me a bit...