Our consultants regularly share practical insights, lessons from the field, and forward-looking perspectives on topics shaping modern organisations. From AI adoption to organisational change — written by practitioners, for practitioners.
Real Agile Ships.
“We work agile” is one of the most reliably misleading things a team can say.
Not because agile is a bad idea — it is not. When it works, it is one of the most effective ways to build software and run projects. But in our experience, the word is used in two very different ways, and only one of them has anything to do with the methodology.
The first version looks like this: short iterations, a clear backlog, working software delivered at the end of every sprint, and actual users giving actual feedback before the next cycle starts. The process exists to serve delivery, not the other way around.
Read more →Everyone's an Expert. Until It Has to Actually Work.
There is a pattern we have seen play out more times than we can count.
A new topic catches fire. Maybe it is AI. Maybe it was blockchain before that, or digital transformation before that, or agile before that. The label does not matter much. What matters is what happens next.
Within weeks, the market fills up with experts. Consultants who have read the whitepapers, attended the conferences, and built slide decks that make the whole thing look inevitable and obvious. The pitch is polished. The roadmap is clean. The business case is compelling.
Read more →If You're Afraid to Turn a System Off, You Already Have a Problem.
There is a particular kind of system that exists in almost every organisation we have ever worked with.
Nobody is quite sure what it does. Nobody is quite sure who uses it. It has been running for years — maybe a decade — and at some point, the person who set it up left. The documentation, if there ever was any, is gone. It just sits there, quietly consuming resources, and everyone agrees without saying so that the safest thing to do is leave it alone.
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