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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....

Over the past twenty years the corporate world has seen significant change influenced by digital technology which has revolutionised the...

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...

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

Agilicist have been parachuted into a multitude of organisations to fix issues they’ve had working with geographically distributed...

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....

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...

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

One of the most often misunderstood (and often skipped) parts of the PI process is that of Objectives writing for the agile teams. The...

Everybody wants to be trusted and to trust those around them, right? Trust is something that we all rely upon in our interpersonal...

“Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.” – JEAN...

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” – William Blake. In the modern world there are...