Yesterday, *hopefully* you wired the product for truth. You have five clean baseline metrics and a dashboard that finally says more than “ship faster.” Today, we move to the middle...
I find that many teams don’t have a solid understanding of the tools that assist with product management. The challenging part for me is that there are many great tools...
Product management has taken many forms since Procter & Gamble introduced the term in the early 1930s. Yet, the core purpose remains the same: one accountable steward guides a product...
- 2025 Data Shows It’s Evolving (and Earning More Than Ever)Did You Know? Despite all the buzz about AI taking over jobs, Agile and Scrum are not only surviving; they’re...
As a husband for over 25 years and a father of four energetic boys (ages 21-12), one of my deepest responsibilities is to prepare them to serve their future spouses/family...
The Problem. Your radar now shows what code is hot and how the team feels, but not why some work crawls while other items sprint to “Done.” Hidden queue time...
The Problem. Commit and cycle-time charts show what happened; they rarely reveal how the team feels. Stress signals appear first in Slack emojis, tense pull-request comments, or an awkward silence...
The Problem. Our team's repo might ship 300 commits a week, but unless you categorize them by theme, you won’t see stealth debt accumulating or feature work spreading across five...
The Problem. Your team runs on ceremonies and dashboards, but between stand-ups and sprint reviews, blind spots can lurk. Commit spikes hide stealth debt, sentiment dips signal brewing burnout, and...
- Lighting Up Hidden Signals for a Week of Agile InsightThe Problem. Even the best Agile teams rely on blind faith when they depend only on events and dashboards. Commit...
- A story a day keeps the cynics away—here’s today’s. Why Joy is a Delivery Metric. Harvard Business Review’s “Happiness Dividend” study showed happy employees are 31% more productive and...
- Agile transformations often begin with excitement (a catalyzing event if done properly). You know, a two-day certification push, a new set of tools, and a celebration of backlog migration...