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ost teams aren’t failing to deliver. They’re just delivering the past. This post reimagines the Three Horizons of Product Delivery - showing you how to balance innovation, scale, and stability before your roadmap becomes a liability.

Tech debt doesn’t begin in the codebase - it begins in the boardroom. This article exposes how leadership decisions, delayed investments, and strategic neglect create delivery drag across your organisation. If 40% of your tech budget is lost to invisible friction, it's time to rethink who really owns the problem.

Organisations often respond to delivery pressure by adding more teams - but without the right capabilities in place, this only scales dysfunction. In this article, we explore why capability must come before capacity, how to identify the real constraints in your system, and what to do instead of defaulting to headcount growth.

Agile was never meant to be a playbook - but that's exactly what it's become. In our latest article, we explore how the Agile Industrial Complex turned a mindset into merchandise, and what leaders can do to reclaim agility as a principle-driven, outcome-focused way of working. If your teams are running the rituals but not seeing the results, this one’s for you.

Most org charts look like neat boxes, but the real flow of work resembles a tangled subway map - overlapping lines, hidden bottlenecks, and missed connections. To deliver at scale, you need more than structure. You need flow by design.

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.

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

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

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)...

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”....

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...

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