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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.

Step into the average digital programme, and the backlog tells a story - but it’s less of a roadmap and more of a crime scene. Bloated lists, zombie tickets, and vague tasks reveal deeper organisational issues. In this article, we’ll play detective, examining the evidence to uncover what your backlog says about your culture - and how to fix it.

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

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”....

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...

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