How to Improve Your Delivery System One Measurable Change at a Time
Weeks or months into a transformation, performance is worse than when you started. Leadership approved the transformation because they wanted better performance. Instead, deli…
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How to Improve Your Delivery System One Measurable Change at a Time
Weeks or months into a transformation, performance is worse than when you started. Leadership approved the transformation because they wanted better performance. Instead, deli…
How to Handle Blocked Tasks Without Losing Predictability
Every delivery team eventually runs into the same situation. A piece of work is progressing well until it suddenly stops. Maybe you’re waiting on another team. Maybe a customer n…
When Leadership Asks “When Will It Be Done?”, Here’s the Answer That Ends the Negotiation
If you coach teams or manage delivery, you already know the moment I mean. Someone senior asks when the work will be done. A date comes with it, pushed across the table with no c…
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Your Team Is Hitting Its Velocity. So Why Is Delivery Taking So Long?
For a long time, I thought that if a Scrum team maintained consistent velocity, we had a pretty good indication that the delivery system was working. The team was completing r…
How to Unleash the Power of Your Highly Specialized Team (Using a Simple Process Policy)
If you’ve been managing highly specialized teams, you’ll certainly have seen how specialization dictates the priority of the work. Worse yet, it often creates road blocks pre…
How to Handle Blocked Tasks Without Losing Predictability
Every delivery team eventually runs into the same situation. A piece of work is progressing well until it suddenly stops. Maybe you’re waiting on another team. Maybe a customer n…
Why Industry Benchmarks Don’t Work for Cycle Time (And What to Bring to Leadership Instead)
Sooner or later, every delivery leader gets asked to produce a benchmark. The team’s cycle time is finally on a chart, someone senior leans in, and out comes the question: how do…
When Leadership Asks “When Will It Be Done?”, Here’s the Answer That Ends the Negotiation
If you coach teams or manage delivery, you already know the moment I mean. Someone senior asks when the work will be done. A date comes with it, pushed across the table with no c…
Can You Trust the Flow Metrics Your AI Calculates? Here’s How to Check
More and more teams are pointing an LLM at their raw delivery data, straight out of Jira or Azure DevOps, and asking it for their flow metrics. Cycle time, throughput, a for…
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How to Unleash the Power of Your Highly Specialized Team (Using a Simple Process Policy)
If you’ve been managing highly specialized teams, you’ll certainly have seen how specialization dictates the priority of the work. Worse yet, it often creates road blocks pre…
How Changing Our Incentives Changed the Way Our Team Worked
Tell me if this sounds familiar. The bonus review comes around and everyone’s performance metrics are collected. The numbers go into a spreadsheet. People are ranked from hi…
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Your Team Is Hitting Its Velocity. So Why Is Delivery Taking So Long?
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