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Mistakes Teams Make When Changing Sprint Length—and How to Fix Them

BlogOctober 28, 2025102Views 0Likes 0Comments

Changing Sprint length sounds small. It isn’t. You’re rewiring the team’s heartbeat: planning, demo cadence, stakeholder expectations, metrics—everything. Get it right and throughput climbs with less stress. Get it wrong and you’ll drown in churn, missed goals, and noisy metrics. Below are the most common traps I see when teams tweak Sprint cadence, plus fast,…

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How Long Is a Sprint in Agile? The 2025 Playbook (What Top Teams Actually Do)

BlogOctober 24, 2025178Views 0Likes 0Comments

If you’re here for a straight answer first: a Sprint is one month or less. That’s the official time-box. Most elite teams today run one or two weeks, with two weeks still the common default. The rest of this playbook shows you how to pick your length, prove it works, and when to change it—without…

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Capacity Planning That Survives Reality

BlogOctober 10, 2025141Views 0Likes 0Comments

Replace wishful thinking with arrival/throughput trends and variability. Here’s a no-theory-bloat playbook you can run this week to set a simple capacity cap and boost predictability—without spreadsheets breeding in the wild. The 20% that moves 80% of results Match intake to historical throughput. Cap WIP by target cycle time (via Little’s Law). Price variability into…

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Kanban for Scrum Teams: Stabilize Flow Without Changing Scrum

BlogOctober 7, 2025212Views 0Likes 0Comments

Scrum gives you focus and cadence. Kanban adds flow and predictability. Used together, you can deliver more steadily without changing Scrum’s roles, events, or artifacts. This guide shows exactly how to layer Kanban practices into your existing Scrum setup to visualize flow, limit WIP, and actively manage aging work—plus a 4-week pilot plan and clear…

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Flow Debt: The Hidden Cost of Blocked Work

BlogOctober 3, 2025156Views 0Likes 0Comments

Track blocked time %, aging WIP, and handoff counts; add blocker clustering and a weekly impediment burn-down If your delivery feels slower than it should be—even with “full” utilization—you’re likely paying flow debt: the silent tax created when work sits blocked, ages in progress, or pinballs across handoffs. You don’t need a giant transformation to…

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Lead Time vs. Cycle Time: Which One Should You Improve First?

BlogSeptember 30, 2025392Views 0Likes 0Comments

If you optimize the wrong metric, you’ll “get faster”… and still miss your delivery dates. The cure is simple: separate customer wait (lead time) from team execution time (cycle time), diagnose the real constraint, then run a focused experiment. Below you’ll find crisp definitions, quick diagnostics, interventions that actually move the needle, a one-page decision…

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EBM in Practice: Turn Strategy Reviews Into Evidence Reviews

BlogSeptember 28, 2025205Views 0Likes 0Comments

Monthly strategy meetings often drift into opinions, slide theater, and “feels.” Let’s flip that. Use Evidence-Based Management (EBM) to run monthly evidence reviews anchored on three Key Value Areas that move the needle fast: Current Value (CV), Time-to-Market (TtM), and Ability to Innovate (A2I). You’ll align bets with outcomes, cut waste, and create a repeatable…

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Reducing Meeting Load by 20%—Without Losing Alignment

BlogSeptember 26, 2025160Views 0Likes 0Comments

Map your meeting inventory, cut redundancy, replace with async artifacts, and track hours-per-person vs. outcomes. If your calendar looks like Tetris on hard mode, you’re paying an “alignment tax.” The fix isn’t a crusade against meetings—it’s making the few you keep do the heavy lifting while everything else moves asynchronously. Below is a battle-tested, 4-step…

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The Product Goal as a Portfolio Compass

BlogSeptember 19, 2025220Views 0Likes 0Comments

Translate your Product Goal into quarterly EBM targets (CV, TtM, A2I) and Sprint Goal hypotheses — plus a one-page alignment board you can use today. If your Product Goal isn’t shaping real-world choices, it’s just a slogan. The move is simple: connect the Product Goal to three quarterly evidence targets from Evidence-Based Management (EBM) —…

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Definition of Done as a Quality System

BlogSeptember 16, 2025221Views 0Likes 0Comments

Turn your DoD into measurable checks, wire a simple quality gate into CI, and audit it without drama. Most teams treat the Definition of Done (DoD) like a checklist pinned to a wall. Useful—until things get busy. Then “Done” slides, defects leak, and CI turns red at the worst time. Let’s turn DoD into a…

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