Rethink Your Understanding

Staying Was the Hard Move

I’m at a reflection point in my career.

Mar 2 • Rethink Your Understanding

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January 2026

Agile Isn’t Dead and AI Isn’t Killing It Either

AI Is Rebundling Roles, Shrinking Some Teams, and Raising the Bar for Responsible Delivery

Jan 26 • Rethink Your Understanding

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December 2025

AI Fluent, Fundamentally Lost

The Dual Bar for Hiring in 2026

Dec 9, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

November 2025

When AI Isn’t Enough

Why Fundamentals Still Matter in an AI-Shaped Engineering World

Nov 29, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

When the System Fits, the Product Operating Model Works

In every conversation about product delivery, team structures, and operating models, one pattern always stands out: there is no single correct structure…

Nov 29, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

Why Value Stream Management and the Product Operating Model Matter (and What Comes Next)

I had the opportunity to revisit my January article and refine its key points for a recent Flowtopia.io post.

Nov 6, 2025

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October 2025

The Price of Alignment

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

Oct 23, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

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, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

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, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

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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, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

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, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding

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, 2025 • Rethink Your Understanding