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Agile is a state of mind

Stories and observations on agile, life’s noise, and the things that make us human.

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When Agile Transformations and Software Projects Fail, It’s Often for the Same Reason

15 June 2026

The problem is rarely that things are adapted poorly. It’s that the wrong things are protected too well.

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The Feature Nobody Asked For

1 June 2026

The application the world hadn’t seen… and didn’t want to see.

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Ownership Is a Risk, Not a Virtue

18 May 2026

Ownership is easiest to demand when you don’t have to live where the consequences land.

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When Language Lies — Even If Nobody Does

11 May 2026

When people say “yes”, it rarely means what we think it means. Not because they’re lying — but because saying “no” is often the riskier option.

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Scrum is Dead

4 May 2026

Declaring Scrum dead is easy. Creating an environment where it could live is harder. Most organizations never tried the second.

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The Product Owner Should Come from Business

23 April 2026

A real project, a familiar assumption, and why “coming from business” is a much riskier answer than it sounds.

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How This Blog Almost Didn't Happen

13 April 2026

Why this blog took years to go live — a story of stops, shifts, and re-prioritization.

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Finally live

2 April 2026

It took almost seven years to get here. Not because I was lazy. Because life has a habit of reshuffling the backlog when you’re not looking.

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Agile Is a State of Mind: The Origins

2 April 2026

Where a simple phrase came from—before agile was swallowed by certificates, lanyards, and other souvenirs.

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The Consultant and the Fisherman

2 April 2026

A fisherman, a consultant, and the eternal mismatch between “more” and “enough”.

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