TL; DR: The Immunity Response and How the Principles Spread Anyway Organizations resist change through immune responses: encapsulation, assimilation, exhaustion, redefinition, and expulsion. But immune systems attack what they recognize. Hence, if you are in the business of change and…
TL, DR: The Reformation That Became the Church The Agile Manifesto followed Luther’s Reformation arc: radical simplicity hardened into scaling frameworks, transformation programs, and debates about what counts as “real Agile.” Learn to recognize when you’re inside the orthodoxy and…
TL; DR: Why the Brand Failed While the Ideas Won Your LinkedIn feed is full of it: Agile is dead. They’re right. And, at the same time, they’re entirely wrong. The word is dead. The brand is almost toxic in…
TL; DR: The AI Parrot in the Room Your LLM tool doesn’t think. It’s a statistical AI parrot: sophisticated and trained on millions of conversations—but still a parrot. Teams that fail with AI either don’t understand this or act as…
TL; DR: Jim Highsmith, Fabrice Bernhard, and Sandrine Olivencia speaking at Hands-on Agile 2025 The fourth and last batch of videos of Hands-on Agile 2025 is in—and it’s a fitting finale. Jim Highsmith explores the future of Agility in an…
TL; DR: The Agile Paradox Many companies adopt Agile practices like Scrum but fail to achieve true transformation. This “Agile Paradox” occurs because they implement tactical processes without changing their underlying command-and-control structure, culture, and leadership style. True agility requires…
Book Your Seat in the AI for Agile BootCamp #3 — October 1 – November 12, 2025 The job market’s shifting. Agile roles are under pressure. AI tools are everywhere. But here’s the truth: the Agile professionals who learn how…
TL; DR: Agile Failure at Corporate Level The data couldn’t be more supportive: Despite 25 years of the Agile Manifesto, countless books, a certification industry, conferences, and armies of consultants, we’re collectively struggling to make Agile work. My recent survey,…
TL; DR: AI in Agile Product Teams I have been interested in how artificial intelligence as an emerging technology may shape our work since the advent of ChatGPT; see my various articles on the topic. As you may imagine, when…
TL; DR: Pure Scrum? Can you rely on pure Scrum to transform your organization and deliver value? Not always. While Scrum excels in simplicity and flexibility, applying it “out of the box” often falls short in corporate contexts due to…
