“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do.” Steve Jobs “Most organizations do not have a technology problem. They have a coordination problem.” Gene Kim I did not begin my career thinking about Agile or SAFe. My early work was focused on large, high-pressure IT projects delivered through waterfall. And if you have lived in that world, you know exactly how the requirements looked. Thousands of “the system shall…” statements created through hundr

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”  Peter Drucker “Nothing fails like success when you rely on the formula that worked yesterday.”  Tom Peters I’ve delivered software at scale, led Agile Release Trains, and worked with teams that understood their roles and delivery cycles. I thought I had a solid grasp of SAFe. Then I earned my SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC) certification. That’s when I began to see how mu

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”— Stephen Hawking “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”— John F. Kennedy Haven't we all seen this? Executives get promoted because they are subject matter experts within their domain. Then one day they’re told to lead something completely different: an IT overhaul, an Agile rollout, a data modernization effort. Suddenly, they’re in charge of people who are working on somet

AI without experience is a bad call! My first job was as a cashier at Piggly Wiggly, a southern grocery store. The registers were manual,...