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When Heathrow went down, they blamed the power supplier.

Everyone has a disaster recovery plan—on paper

You can not implement Agile or Scrum successfully by decree

Toyota "andon" cord lets any worker stop production to fix defects

You want speed, adaptability, resilience

let-us be blunt

We hear self-managing teams so often it become a cliché

Everyone loves to shout give teams autonomy

Fear is the real enemy of agility

Technical debt cripples business agility and slows engineers down

Most teams don’t fail because they lack frameworks

Agile and Scrum are often misunderstood

A certification proves you’ve passed a test

Here the dirty secret behind many agile transformations

I’ll never understand teams that manage bugs instead of fixing them

let-us do the maths

Too much refinement wastes time

Not all surprises in product development are true unknowns

Innovation graveyards: Where great ideas die in slow organisations

No successful company thrives by copying others’ ways of working

On Engineering Excelence & Technical Leadership

Velocity isn’t how many story points a team burns down

Scrum Masters are not glorified meeting schedulers

There no such thing as "good" technical debt

Scrum Teams don’t set the bar for quality—they meet it

Engineering can fix technical debt, but leadership has to invest in it

Do More Staging Environments Really Reduce Deployment Risk

Every delay increases the risk of failure

Technical debt isn’t just messy code

Technical debt cripples business agility and slows engineers down

If teams struggle with quality or delivery, the problem is often the system

The Hidden Costs of Supporting Multiple Versions in Production

Why Organisations Believe Their Software Is Too Complex for CD

Rethinking Dev-Test-Staging-Production Pipelines for Safety

Why Tracking Individual Cycle Time Distorts Team Behaviour

Toyota "andon" cord lets any worker stop production to fix defects

Why Engineering Teams Use Staging Environments for Risk Reduction

Executives want predictability

Why Scrum Masters Need Technical Expertise to Guide Teams

Why Slow Processes Impact Developer Productivity and Performance

Understand the true risk of technical debt in your business

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