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Why Resilience Demands More Than Survival

True organisational resilience means improving technical health—like testing, automation, and architecture—beyond just surviving incidents or following Agile rituals.

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In resilient organisations, resilience is not about bouncing back; it is about bouncing forward. Teams that survive chaos but leave behind technical debt are not resilient — they are brittle.

Real resilience comes from embedding rigorous engineering discipline. Every time you patch a production issue, you must ask:

Without these, you are not resilient — you are hiding behind Agile theatre.

Detecting Agile Bullshit in Resilience Talk

Here is how to spot teams and leaders pretending they are resilient:

If you hear these, stop and challenge them. Resilient systems show up in empirical delivery, not in slide decks or postmortem write-ups.

Technical Health: Your Best Resilience Investment

Operational resilience is engineered in the small:

Resilience is a leadership accountability. Product Owners set priorities that invest in system health, not just features. Scrum Masters challenge process rot and technical compromises. Engineering leaders fund cross-team technical enablement.

Without technical health, there is no sustainable delivery. Without sustainable delivery, there is no real resilience.

I look forward to continuing our work together. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

Best regards,
Martin Hinshelwood
Naked Agility Ltd.


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