It’s easy to get caught up in exciting visions of innovation that will happen at your company. But the first step is knowing how people respond to change.

Priorities impact a lot more than just personal productivity

Culture follows structure. And structure depends on your metaphor for doing the work.

If velocity is a lagging metric, what actually affects it in the first place?

Digital work is hard to quantify. Here’s what I’ve picked up through the years, when agreeing to project, product, and delivery metrics for software teams.

Highly accurate estimates are critical under conditions of high uncertainty. Here’s how to get a real-world grip on them.

Velocity this. Velocity that. Ultimately, if you want a quantiative early warning system, you need to have good metrics. And know how to use them.

Plan your team’s capacity where there is a lot to get done and it all feels a bit wooly.

When you get down to first principles, you can be quite surprised how powerful and reusable they are.

Compare the true cost of centralized control and scope planning to alternative approaches