It is a Tuesday afternoon in a quarterly planning meeting. The CFO has the headcount sheet open. Someone in the room, maybe the VP of engineering, says, "We've got eight...
In January 2023, Capital One eliminated 1,100 roles in what it called its "agile job family." In the bank's own words, and I'm going to quote them directly:"The agile role...
Last month a Scrum Master I coach facilitated an AI adoption canvas exercise with her team. The goal was straightforward: map out where AI tools could reduce toil in their...
You're sitting in a PI planning event. It is day two. The room has been at it for twelve hours across two days, and the teams are negotiating dependencies on...
There's something I keep hearing in coaching conversations that I don't believe anybody's saying on a bigger stage yet. Organizations that spent three years implementing some kind of scaling framework...
A director of product analytics at a logistics company told me this story a few weeks ago. Her team spent four months building a demand forecasting model. The algorithm was...
Your team's velocity is the highest it has ever been. Features are shipping faster than the roadmap can absorb them. And somewhere around month three, everything is going to slow...
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...