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Flow+Joy Focus. Mapping idea-to-cash lead time by stage reveals where Flow stalls and whether shipped features truly impact the customer. I mean, that is really the only reason we build...

Did You Know? Miro surveyed 8,094 knowledge workers across seven countries to see how AI is landing on their digital desks. Key findings:35% of respondents admit their AI skills are...

Flow+Joy Focus. Reduce cognitive load so teams focus on features; insights from the DZone Developer-Experience Trend Report on Platform Engineering. Self-serve platform services cut environment setup time in half, freeing...

Flow+Joy FocusLong pull-request wait times erode developer happiness and inflate lead time; measuring them daily turns quiet frustration into actionable flow fixes. People → Service → Profit. When reviews linger...

I am guilty. I still bleed purple and orange from my time as Hub Operations Manager at FedEx Express. They taught me a lot and essentially molded me into the...

Did You Know?The “data architect” role has rocketed 35% on LinkedIn since 2022 and now commands U.S. salaries that exceed $200k plus bonuses. These architects design the blueprints utilized by...

Velocity, cycle time, and DORA provided us with clarity within a single squad. Let's step back to view the broader context of most implementations: ten squads, one product, one timeline...

Did You Know? China’s sprint to embed AI across every layer of its economy isn’t solely about shipping the largest foundation model; it’s about diffusing AI capabilities the fastest. Ben...

DORA Metrics Deep Dive Yesterday, we wired “Cycle-Time + PPC” alerts into Slack, proving that real-time flow data keeps teams honest about commitments. But executives still ask the same two...

Did You Know?Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has informed the company’s 1.56 million employees that generative-AI “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today” and...

Did You Know? Microsoft Research recently unveiled a trio of breakthroughs, rStar-Math, Logic-RL, and Chain-of-Reasoning (CoR), that push small language models (1-7 B parameters) past 50% accuracy on Olympiad-level math...

Yesterday’s “Flow Radar” post showed you how to wire Jira and your CI/CD pipeline into an AI bot that pings Slack with the day’s top three bottlenecks, WIP age, blocked...