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I have a problem.  It’s quite serious and it affects me everyday.  I can’t seem to watch a TV programme without trying to find some...

In today’s enterprises, delivery often looks busy but achieves little. Delivery Theatre explores the illusion of progress created by rehearsed rituals, vanity metrics, and agile-by-numbers. From Jira-driven busyness to transformation-by-slide-deck, this article unpacks why organisations confuse activity with outcomes—and how to break free from performative delivery to focus on real customer value, measurable impact, and strategic alignment.

I’ve written my thoughts previously on why I hate daily stand-ups. Not because they can’t be valuable, but because they almost never are....

How the Scrum Master role is evolving in the modern enterprise and how your organisation can be first mover to take advantage

Jira, love it or hate it? Either way, for a lot of organisations it’s necessary; it’s the main tool that development teams use to (1)...

Turns out guacamole is the answer. I’m not entirely sure what the question is (on a side note, I just found out there is a new Douglas...

We set Sales teams quota targets, but we don’t tell them they need to close a specific deal on a specific day. We ask marketing teams to...

I was reading an article the other day from one of the big consultancy firms about organisational culture and why cultural change efforts...

In my consultancy work I use sporting analogies a lot. My hero growing up was Andre Agassi, and he once said that every tennis match is a...

Here’s a stat for you: 5% of employees are aware of and/or understand their company’s strategy. Or an even better one: 71% of employees...

Many of the organisations agilicist are drafted into have already been through an “agile transformation”. But they aren’t “transformed”....

FACT: Higher Trust = Higher Productivity and more engagement. But how do you create a culture of trust in your organisation? ..... I was...

Why Enterprises are moving away from Scrum and back to traditional delivery management. Companies are ditching the Scrum Master role....

With all this talk, I’m going to share the best #agileframework out there. This framework helped Agilicist drive multiple successful...

47% of Agile Transformations Fail. Why? Because companies do one of these two things: They focus on Practices They think that doing Stand...

Does prioritisation Equal Good Strategy? In the dynamic and fast-paced world of business, strategy plays a pivotal role in shaping the...

I recently saw a video on social conformity that caught my eye, a modern take of the classic psychology experiment by Asch (1951). The...

Following its ethos for continuous improvement, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has recently announced SAFe 6.0 - an updated and...

PI Planning is at the very heart of any SAFe implementation. But do we really need it? Well, as Dean Leffingwell states: ‘If you aren’t...

“Whether your company is working in waterfall or agile, your testers will have the same basic skill-set and knowledge, the real...