Leadership + Organization
Five Signs Your Scaling Framework Is Now the Bottleneck
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...
Leadership + Organization
Why Organizations Are Quietly Pulling Apart Their Scaling Frameworks (And What to Do Instead)
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...
Responsible AI
Your AI Has a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem
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...
Product
The "Vibe Coding" Hangover: What Product Teams Need to Know
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...
Responsible AI
The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code: Why Your Delivery Metrics Are Lying to You
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...
Responsible AI
Why Most AI Projects Stall After the Pilot
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...
Agility
The Five Agile Practices Worth Keeping (And Three to Retire)
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...
Agility
Agile Isn't Dead, But Your Version of It Might Be
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...
Leadership + Organization
From Delivery to Learning: A Practical Operating Model for 2026
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...
Agility
7 Moves to Build a Learning Operating Model in 2026
Your team shipped everything on the roadmap this quarter. The metrics look great. And yet you're not sure if any of it mattered.That gap between what you delivered and whether...
Product
Signal vs. Noise in Product Metrics
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...
Agility
Stop Tracking Vanity Metrics: 5 Metrics Wasting Your Team's Time (and What Measures to Use Instead)
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...