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The Price of Alignment

How Well-Intentioned Integration Can Undermine Modern Architecture and Team Autonomy

Oct 23 • 

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Beyond the Beyond Delivery: AI Across the Value Stream

A follow up article and reflection on how AI amplifies the systems it enters, and why clarity in measurement and language defines its true impact.

Oct 12 • 

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What Happens When We Eliminate the Agile Leader?

The hidden cost of removing the role that protects flow, team health, and continuous improvement

Oct 11 • 

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From Two Pizzas to One: How AI Reshapes Dev Teams

Exploring how AI could reshape software teams, smaller pods, stronger guardrails, and the balance between autonomy and oversight.

Oct 4 • 

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Beyond Delivery: Realizing AI’s Potential Across the Value Stream

At the 2025 Engineering Leadership Tech Summit, Mik Kersten previewed ideas from his upcoming book, Output to Outcome: An Operating Model for the Age of…

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Smarter Pull Requests: Balancing AI, Automation, and Human Review

Best practices for AI-enhanced pull requests, combining rules, templates, CI checks, and human review to deliver faster, safer code

Sep 28 • 

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August 2025

So, What Does a VP of Software Engineering Do?

This article began as a response to a colleague in the industry, Patrice Corbard, a DevOps advisor, trainer, and author in France, who asked me a simple…

Aug 22 • 

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AI in Software Delivery: Targeting the System, Not Just the Code

This article is a follow-up to my earlier post, AI Is Improving Software Engineering.

Aug 9 • 

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AI Is Improving Software Engineering. But It’s Only One Piece of the System

A follow-up to my last post Leading Through the AI Hype in R&D, this piece explores how strong AI adoption still needs system thinking, responsibility…

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

Leading Through the AI Hype in R&D

Note: AI is evolving rapidly, transforming workflows faster than expected.

Jul 28 • 

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June 2025

Bets, Budgets, and Reframing Software Delivery as Continuous Discovery

This post is a follow-up to my articles on estimation and product operating models, exploring how adaptive investment, value discovery, and team…

Jun 8 • 

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May 2025

When Team Structure Collides with Role Alignment

How Merging Engineering Models Can Disrupt What Works And What to Do About It

May 26 • 

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