by Stefan Wolpers|FeaturedAgile and ScrumAgile Transition
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 many circles; check the usual subreddits. But the principles? They’re spreading faster than ever. They just dropped the name that became synonymous with consultants, certifications, transformation failures, and the enforcement of rituals.
You all know organizations that loudly rejected “Agile” and now quietly practice its core ideas more effectively than any companies running certified transformation programs. The brand failed. The ideas won.
TL; DR: Mechanical Ceremonies to Meaningful Events
Your Agile events aren’t failing because people lack training. They’re failing because your organization adopted the rituals while rejecting the transparency, trust, and adaptation that make them work. And often, the dysfunction of mechanical ceremonies isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.
Leadership resistance to your pre-mortem reveals whether your organization’s operating model prioritizes comfortable narratives over preventing failure. This article shows you how to diagnose cultural dysfunction and decide which battles to fight.
What if your organization’s “Agility” dysfunction isn’t an implementation problem but a missing-conditions problem that switching to, say, a product operating model cannot solve? This article identifies the success factors for agility that are absent in your organization. It gives you concrete Monday-morning actions to test what’s actually possible within your sphere of influence to drive change, because agility matters.
TL; DR: How Your Advantage Becomes Your Achilles Heel
AI can silently erode your product operating model by replacing empirical validation with pattern-matching shortcuts and algorithmic decision-making. This article on product development AI risks, along with its corresponding video, identifies three consolidated risk categories and practical boundaries to maintain customer-centric judgment while leveraging AI effectively.
by Stefan Wolpers|FeaturedAgile and ScrumAgile Transition
TL; DR: Mastering AI 4 Agile with the Best Self-Paced Online Course
The Mastering AI with the AI 4 Agile Online Course launches this week, and I am proud that I avoided another delay. Scope creep happened despite my supposed expertise in preventing exactly that. The course expanded from a simple prompt collection to over 8 hours of video, custom GPTs, and materials that I’ll apparently continue to update indefinitely, as I’m still not satisfied that it’s comprehensive enough. (Also, the field is advancing so rapidly.)
At least the $129 lifetime access means you will benefit from my urge to fight my imposter syndrome with perfectionism and from my inability to call a project “done.” I guess we are in for the long term. 🙂
