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A problem-solution approach to organizational change
A problem-solution approach to organizational change
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post describing organizational improvement in purely bespoke terms: mission, values, and…
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What's Your Change Equation?
What's Your Change Equation?
‘Adopting Agile‘ usually presupposes a prior-defined solution or framework (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) being brought in. In…
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2 parallel paths to agility
2 parallel paths to agility
I remember once joking, "you've heard of the best practice to go narrow and deep? Well, we're going broad and shallow."…
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Win at transforming by not losing
Win at transforming by not losing
An admired technology leader once told me that 80 percent of code written in an application should cover what he called…
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The 4 Elements of an Agile Organization
The 4 Elements of an Agile Organization
Becoming a Lean-Agile organization means being adaptive and nimble as a business. This applies to how value is produced…
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Variability happens (and it's good)
Variability happens (and it's good)
One of the biggest differentiators between intentional Agility and what is widely practiced is real adaptiveness.…
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8 Questions to ask: Are You Intentionally Agile?
8 Questions to ask: Are You Intentionally Agile?
After getting more insight into many companies' Agile initiatives, I've begun to recognize a pattern that seems to…
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The Galapagos Effect
The Galapagos Effect
A colleague of mine just visited the Galápagos Islands. She showed me photos of those famous tortoises, penguins and…
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Who's your family?
Who's your family?
When Michael Corleone tell Fredo, "...don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family," he's expressing the…
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Some people constantly whine about how they need to "get it out the door faster," all the while refusing to do the things that will actually get it…
Some people constantly whine about how they need to "get it out the door faster," all the while refusing to do the things that will actually get it…
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First of all, I love Agile! But I'm tearing my hair out over what's going on out there right now! Instead of... ...empowering teams and…
First of all, I love Agile! But I'm tearing my hair out over what's going on out there right now! Instead of... ...empowering teams and…
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A junior once asked me why I added a null check after getting a value from the DB. “It’ll never be null, right? The where clause filters it.” He…
A junior once asked me why I added a null check after getting a value from the DB. “It’ll never be null, right? The where clause filters it.” He…
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You can’t write good OKRs if you skip the strategy step. Early in my career, I watched a team set beautiful, perfectly formatted OKRs. The OKRs…
You can’t write good OKRs if you skip the strategy step. Early in my career, I watched a team set beautiful, perfectly formatted OKRs. The OKRs…
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This is an incredible story. The photos—more than 8,000 images—capture an unmistakable time and place. But there's a mystery in this huge…
This is an incredible story. The photos—more than 8,000 images—capture an unmistakable time and place. But there's a mystery in this huge…
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While I’ve dabbled with AI for a few years, I recently decided to roll up my sleeves and test its full range - not just as a tool, but as a thinking…
While I’ve dabbled with AI for a few years, I recently decided to roll up my sleeves and test its full range - not just as a tool, but as a thinking…
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Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can…
Huh. Looks like Plato was right. A new paper shows all language models converge on the same "universal geometry" of meaning. Researchers can…
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I’ve been running a quiet experiment: using AI coding (Vibe Coding) across 10 different closed-loop production projects — from minor refactors to…
I’ve been running a quiet experiment: using AI coding (Vibe Coding) across 10 different closed-loop production projects — from minor refactors to…
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AI coding discourse over the past few years has been funny to watch. Because it is rapidly boiling down to: Write really clear, detailed…
AI coding discourse over the past few years has been funny to watch. Because it is rapidly boiling down to: Write really clear, detailed…
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You might be using ChatGPT (and other AI tools) wrong. I need to share this because I keep seeing people repeatedly making this mistake, and it…
You might be using ChatGPT (and other AI tools) wrong. I need to share this because I keep seeing people repeatedly making this mistake, and it…
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Last month I had a chance to participate in an executive round table focused on how leaders can be better prepared for the impacts of AI. The same…
Last month I had a chance to participate in an executive round table focused on how leaders can be better prepared for the impacts of AI. The same…
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Does Figma have a long-term vision? If they do, they certainly didn’t reveal it at last week’s Config. Every product was a reactive announcement to…
Does Figma have a long-term vision? If they do, they certainly didn’t reveal it at last week’s Config. Every product was a reactive announcement to…
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