LeadingAgile

Widespread deployment of Artificial Intelligence is forcing companies to scrutinize their cost structures in new ways. News reports of companies laying off thousands of workers due to the impact of AI are increasingly common, such as Megan Cerullo’s

Are our teams actually getting better?

It’s a simple question, and not enough technology leaders are asking it. Some assume the answer is yes. Others are too buried in day-to-day delivery to step back and check. But every leader should be asking it, and that’s more true today than it was even a few y...

When transformation isn’t producing results, the first instinct is to look at delivery. Teams aren’t shipping fast enough. The backlog is bloated. The release cadence is inconsistent. The organization reaches for the familiar remedies: new frameworks, better ceremonies, more alignment meetings. Sometimes this helps at the margin. Th...

I’ve spent the last 25 years trying to answer one question: how do you actually get a large, complex organization to deliver software predictably? The question hasn’t changed. The technology has changed. The buzzwords have changed. The funding model has changed. But the underlying problem has been the same one the whole time, and right now it’s wearing a new...

In my last article, Why Most App Modernizations Fail, I made the case that organizations know they need to modernize but are lacking a framework that remo...