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Friday, October 31, 2025

Prioritization isn't what it used to be.

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"Prioritization" once meant finding the one, single most important thing. In the Latin root, prior was a singular absolu...
Monday, October 27, 2025

AI Estimation - helping you understand Architectural Quality

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Artificial Intelligence can be a blessing and a curse. While developing VXS, I have come upon a personal reflection exercise: At the ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Is your Strategy a Waste?

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"Strategy" has a bad rap in many teams - not because it's a bad thing, but because in most companies, it's disconn...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Story Points answer nothing

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It's 2025, more than a decade since Story Points should have been buried. But they still aren't. Let me tell you why they're ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Don’t «Trust the Team» if They’re Stupid!

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Yes, that title is intended to ruffle a few feathers. "Trust the team," without context - is a slogan: unhelpful, misleading, a...
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Castle Is Under Siege - are you the bard?

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“If you focus on people being busy, you get people being busy.” You’ve probably heard that one in some Agile training or coaching sess...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Predictability in middle management? Good luck!

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If you’ve ever worked in middle management, you’ve likely felt stuck between chaos from below and control from above. Executives demand stru...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Organisational GRIT

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Many people wonder, "What's the difference between a successful organisation, and one that struggles?" Throughout my decades o...
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Thursday, July 4, 2024

The Phenomenon of Prevalence Induced Concept Change

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In organizational change, people may respond to improvements in unexpected ways - even though things are getting better, they may be und...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

10 Signs your Management is Hurting your Teams

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Sometimes, we're dealing with bad management. And sometimes, we're dealing with management that's actually good, but may loo...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Check your moral compass

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In the fantasy world of "Dungeons & Dragons", a character's actions are often defined by their moral compass - a sys...