A short field notes series on how Agile becomes something organizations hire… instead of something they become. Agile often enters the organization the same way everything else does. Through staffing. A Scrum Master is added.An Agile Coach is brought in.Teams are...
A short field notes series on how progress advances within limits it cannot remove Progress rarely stops where it is argued against. It stops where it is no longer allowed to move. Not explicitly. Not visibly. But in ways that become familiar over time. A proposal...
Every year, enterprise executives play a high-stakes game of chance with their corporate capital. They authorize large-scale IT initiatives and digital transformations under a reassuring assumption: “Sure, a few projects might slip, but across our broader portfolio,...
A short field notes series on leaders experiencing loss of control is actually a mismatch between responsibility and where decisions, learning, and coordination now live. The moment does not arrive as a break. You are still accountable. Still expected to explain what...
A short series on how the manager role changes as systems scale. What the role carries now was never part of its design The Manager role didn’t change. What it carries did. Managers are still described the same way: Accountable for delivery. Responsible for outcomes....
In complex product development, corporate hierarchies demand an absolute premium on certainty. To satisfy this demand, enterprise operating systems have institutionalized a ubiquitous ritual: relative size estimation abstracted into Story Points, which are then summed...