Sometimes you can tell how an organization understands agility before you talk to anyone. Just read the Scrum Master job description. If it says Scrum Master / Project Manager, velocity reporting, KPI tracking, meeting moderation, backlog management, and “ensure the team delivers,” you already know a lot. You know the organization probably wants the language of Scrum without the deeper change. That is what today’s article is about. AI is not really the thing reducing the Scrum Master role....

I apologize for accidentally sending last week's article again. Woohoo, I made a mistake (we celebrate mistakes, because they're part of learning). So here is a really new article about how companies often lose a great engineer AND win a bad manager at the same time. Enjoy! A lot of organizations do not have a leadership pipeline problem. They have a career architecture problem. This article looks at why great engineers are so often pushed into management, what that damages, and what better...

Organizations love talking about experimentation – until reality threatens their assumptions. This article explores how a thing called "confirmation bias" quietly kills innovation, product discovery, and real agility. Most Companies Don’t Want Feedback. They Want Confirmation. Most organizations say they value experimentation, innovation, customer feedback, and learning. But if you observe what actually happens inside many companies, something very different emerges. Teams avoid showing...