We all grow up with superstitions and we develop new ones in our careers. In this article I will share two such superstitions of mine. One is about how I fight off sickness, and another is how I become a better leader.

If racecars were built the way most organizations build software, they'd never finish a race. Organization's singular focus on speed creates ruinous levels of quality. Shifting to focus on quality first, on the other hand, creates huge time savings a...

Agency is all about making meaningful choices. Yet, many organizations strip this away in favor of tight controls. Yet, the best teams I've ever seen operate with a lot of agency, and so make agency a focal point in creating teams as well. A good pla...

Almost every agile approach focuses on teams and short sprints. Unfortunately businesses need to think on longer time horizons and so we need better tools to help leaders respond better. In this article I show a simple way to set goals and measure th...

Technical teams often shout for improvments. More design, less testing, and new tools are common requests. However, these requests are often far more costly than the problems that exist today. This article explains the root of the issues here and how...

Technical teams often shout for improvments. More design, less testing, and new tools are common requests. However, these requests are often far more costly than the problems that exist today. This article explains the root of the issues here and how...

The book “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries swept through the product and business world in 2011, and it had a simple message: Organizations that learn the fastest win. He also brought the concept of Minimum Viable Product to life.

There are so many ways of prioritizing product work ranging from subjective to quantitative. Almost none justify themselves with results. In this post I will share how I prioritize product work with clients by using four simple categories of core, qu...

All over LinkedIn, my feed is full of people saying Agile is dead or that Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches aren’t needed. I understand both the sentiment and the clickbait nature of this kind of headlines. Though if it were clickbait, people would say...

In my last years of college, I took a lot of history classes, and I wound up loving them. So much so that I thought I should have pursued a minor. While this doesn’t make me an expert, I learned some things that stick out to me, and there is one I’m...