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Has your agile transformation stopped delivering returns? Three Lags That Signal Your Transformation Has Plateaued

Three patterns explain why agile transformations plateau: behavioral lag, value lag, and momentum lag between adopted practices and business results.

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Designing a Communication Infrastructure That Reduces Friction

How to reduce communication friction with availability windows, distributed decisions, and distinguishing real constraints from behavioral patterns you’re compensating for.

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I Want to Speak to a Human Who Can Make Decisions

The story about a MOT that revealed a systemic problem in how organisations deal with decisions.

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Comunication friction and user stories
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Communication Friction: Are Your User Stories Growing?

When user stories grow from cards to paragraphs, you don’t have better requirements—you have communication friction you’re compensating for with text.

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The Skills You Optimized For Are Now Your Bottleneck

How “give it to the most capable developer” creates structural dependencies, and why your technical strengths now bottleneck team capability.

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The Crisis Management Addiction: Why Your Team Prefers Chaos to Planning

Why teams prefer crisis work to planning, the neurochemistry of firefighting, and how to break the addiction through disciplined leverage points.

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Anticipating the Security Wake-Up Call: Lessons the history

Why we’re heading for another security crisis. And why the way out is not sexy enough to merit decision makers to adopt improvement practices.

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It shows a character walking across a beam labeled IMPROVEMENT, which is angled upward thanks to its role as a counterweight. Beneath it, the INVISIBLE CRISIS lurks — jagged, shadowy, and reaching — but the character is safely crossing from TOOLS toward ROI, supported by the unseen leverage of process and people.
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Improvement is Invisible even when It Prevents a Crisis

Why improvement loses to tools, the ROI impossibility in software, and systemic People-Process-Tools thinking that creates invisible but lasting advantage.

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Your Date or Mine? Negotiating Reality in the Age of 'Move Fast'

Why AI tools won’t fix impossible deadlines. Building accountability, evidence-based pushback, and sustainable planning that creates trust through consistent delivery.

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AI Productivity Claims Are Making Your Development Teams Less Productive

Why AI productivity hype creates perception gaps and amplifies team dysfunction for scaling organizations.

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