Bill Reilly’s AgileRTP talk offers a practical way to spot workplace friction before it hardens into burnout, through six stages and five questions.
When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly’s Map for Friction Before Burnout
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Maximize Work Not Done: The Overlooked Agile Principle Behind Nano Unicorn Success
Agile’s 10th principle says to maximize the amount of work not done. It was functionally lost for two decades. Nano unicorns rediscovered it through necessity. Established organizations can apply it to cut OpEx without layoffs.
Cat-Herding Clankers: Agile Ceremonies Were Built for Humans. AI Agents Need Something Different.
Part 1 of the Clanker Kanban series. Why sprint ceremonies fail for AI agent coordination and what to build instead. The artifact pyramid, the orchestrator pattern, and four AI-native ceremonies that replace planning meetings with structured handoffs.
Order and Industry — Benjamin Franklin’s Week with a Multi-Portfolio Software Engineering Team
A work of speculative fiction grounded in historical research and Lean-Agile practice. Benjamin Franklin spends a week with a multi-portfolio software engineering team and finds, in their chaos, something familiar.
AgileRTP Meetup: Fostering Collaborative Innovation through Improv
Tiffany Rozell, Principal Agile Practitioner for Red Hat, demonstrates how improvisation techniques can enhance team collaboration, psychological safety, and innovation. This summary covers practical improv exercises, their applications in agile environments, and participant insights from the May 2025 AgileRTP meetup.
I Kanban. So Kanyou.
“We’re using a modified Kanban process.”