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Everyone Can Name the Build Trap. Almost Nobody Gets Out.

Melissa Perri named the trap and Marty Cagan described the way out. Both of them end up pointing at the same person — the leader who keeps handing down solutions.

AI is not the destination. Neither was agile.

Matt Anderson and I gave talks in different rooms at CincyDeliver and made the same argument from opposite ends. Your agile transformation already told you how ready you are for AI — most companies just never looked at the answer.

Behind the Book: How I Actually Used AI to Write It

The preface says the work was mine. Every author says that. Here is the specific version — including the parts that don't flatter me.

Leaders Need to Model the Right Behaviors. It’s the Easy Call, but It’s Not the Whole Fix.

HBR is right that senior leaders have to model the right behaviors. But the forums that punish those behaviors are strategy, delivery economics, and org design, and that changes what the ask should be.

How to Tell If Your Agile Transformation Is Quietly Stalling

You can make the teams awesome and get top-down executive support — and still fail to achieve business agility. Here's why, and what leaders need to do differently.