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Your deployment frequency dropped last Tuesday. Your lead time is up this sprint. A stakeholder is already asking for an explanation. Here is the most important question nobody is asking...

The other day, a team I was working with had a bad sprint. Velocity dropped, stakeholders were upset, but guess who panicked the most? The CTO — who happened to...

Most transformation frameworks were built for a world that no longer exists. A world with stable leadership, co-located teams, and one big change initiative at a time. Modern product organizations...

You sent your whole team through a two-day training course. They got their certificates. They said the right things in the hallway for about a week. They were catalyzed, they...

I think about this often. I feel like our teams are not underperforming because they lack talent, tooling, or process. In most of the organizations I work with, the ceiling...

Here's one thing I rarely hear anyone say out loud at the leadership offsite: the biggest drag on your team's performance is probably not a process problem. I don't believe...

I have four boys between the ages of 21 and 13. Watching them grow up right now makes one thing very clear: they are entering adulthood during one of the...

Your team is using AI to write code, generate content, summarize research, and make recommendations. Here is the question most leaders have not asked yet: if something goes wrong, can...

No one is asking me anymore whether their team should be using AI. I feel like that conversation is over. That ship has sailed a long time ago. AI is...

The goal does not have to get smaller. The uncertainty window does. That is the distinction most teams miss when someone tells them to "make smaller bets."Here is the conversation...

Pull up your roadmap right now — or just picture it in your head. How far out does it go? Six months? Twelve? Now here's the real question: how much...

Most leaders know their teams are waiting too long for infrastructure, security reviews, and approvals. What they don't know is that the solution isn't more process. It's a platform.I worked...