Engineering organizations are hitting a planning wall that spreadsheets were not built for. Headcount curves are familiar: slow ramps, predictable bands, and finance models that mo...
I was in a leadership forum this week when the conversation turned to span of control. Not in the abstract. In numbers. There is a new floor forming: a minimum expectation that man...
I was in planning recently when someone asked, "How many points can we commit to next sprint?" For years, that question was normal. Useful, even. It gave us a shared language for f...
As I work through another planning cycle, the ritual remains the same: the spreadsheet opens, the roadmap is prioritized, and we start the negotiation for more "heads." In my world...