If you’ve spent any time in a quarterly planning session, you’ve likely witnessed the "Feature Factory" in full swing. The room is filled with backlogs, Gantt charts, and a roadmap bursting with "what" we are building. The mindset is often tactical: if we ship
41% of employees are struggling to fit AI into their daily workflows. And only 6% of individual contributors have received any guidance on how to do it. Read that again. Not 6% who got great guidance. 6% who got any guidance at all. AI tools have never been more capable,
Inspect & Adapt is supposed to be one of the most powerful tools in Agile delivery. Its purpose is simple: look at what happened during the last Program Increment (PI), understand why things went well or poorly, and make concrete adjustments for the next cycle. When done properly, it creates
When Agile emerged in the early 2000s, it was a much-needed answer to bloated, slow, waterfall-style project delivery. It brought something refreshing: collaboration over contracts, responding to change over following a plan, people over processes. The goal was straightforward — deliver value faster, better, and together. But somewhere along the way,
Over the years, advancements in ALM tools have significantly changed how organizations approach PI Planning. Teams now have access to more structured backlogs, real-time updates, dependency tracking, and planning artifacts than ever before, with tools that have made it possible to plan across dozens of teams and hundreds of work
Modern Agile delivery is full of artifacts. Features, epics, stories, dependencies and more. Each artifact is useful on its own and together, they describe a plan. But no single place truly owns that plan as a coherent narrative. This is the gap that shows up most clearly after PI Planning
If you are already using Kendis for program boards, solution boards, and dependency management, you already understand one core truth: dependencies are unavoidable in scaled delivery. As teams grow, ARTs expand, and delivery spans multiple tools, dependencies stop being simple handoffs and start becoming one of the biggest risks to
Microsoft's decision to retire Viva Goals by December 31, 2025, marks a critical inflection point for countless organizations committed to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). While the sunsetting of any core strategic tool can introduce uncertainty, this mandatory transition is, in fact, an extraordinary opportunity. It is the
The Best Platforms to Continue and Strengthen Your OKR Practice When Microsoft announced that Viva Goals will be retired in December 2025, many organizations found themselves facing a critical question: Where will our OKRs live next? Viva Goals played an important role in helping teams align around measurable objectives. Its
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Imagine finalizing a portfolio plan for the quarter, only to discover halfway through that the world has moved on. By the time most strategic decisions are acted on, they’re already outdated. In complex portfolios, execution moves faster than interpretation, and leaders are always a quarter behind reality. This gap
Over the years, advancements in ALM tools have significantly changed how organizations approach PI Planning. Teams now have access to more structured backlogs, real-time updates, dependency tracking, and planning artifacts than ever before, with tools that have made it possible to plan across dozens of teams and hundreds of work
Most Agile teams still measure success the same way factories measure success. “How many units did we ship?” Epics, Features, Stories, Bugs. Tickets. Velocity. Release notes that read like a supermarket receipt. And then everyone wonders why the business isn’t moving. If what you shipped doesn’t change customer
Modern Agile delivery is full of artifacts. Features, epics, stories, dependencies and more. Each artifact is useful on its own and together, they describe a plan. But no single place truly owns that plan as a coherent narrative. This is the gap that shows up most clearly after PI Planning
If you are already using Kendis for program boards, solution boards, and dependency management, you already understand one core truth: dependencies are unavoidable in scaled delivery. As teams grow, ARTs expand, and delivery spans multiple tools, dependencies stop being simple handoffs and start becoming one of the biggest risks to
If you are running SAFe® or Big Room Planning in 2025, you already know the biggest pain point isn't the event itself—rather the post event cleanup. The "Post-PI Hangover" is real. It’s the week-long struggle where Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and Product Owners frantically
The rise of Agile has transformed the way teams work, prioritizing collaboration, flexibility, and continuous delivery of value. For project managers transitioning to Agile environments, this shift can feel like a challenge but it’s also an opportunity to evolve into a new kind of leader. Agile isn’t about
To Program Managers, RTEs, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners, we need to talk about context. You’ve built your Agile Release Train (ART) or Department Collection, you've planned your work, and you’re managing dependencies perfectly in Kendis. But let's be honest: that crucial
Multiple ARTs are essential for large initiatives, but they bring complexity that is easy to underestimate. For Release Train Engineers , the stakes are high: interdependencies multiply risk, delays in one train can ripple through programs, and visibility gaps can hide critical problems. To navigate this, RTEs need a structured approach
Why so many organizations execute hard but deliver little—and what changes when focus becomes strategy. In most enterprises, the ambition behind strategy exceeds the system built to deliver it. Research shows that companies capture, on average, only about sixty percent of their strategies’ potential (Morris & Jamison, 2004). The
The implementation of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is often lauded as a powerful mechanism for strategic execution. Many organizations embrace them with the belief that team objectives linking back to overarching company goals signifies true alignment. This vertical alignment is indeed foundational, providing a clear top-down direction and ensuring
Microsoft's decision to retire Viva Goals by December 31, 2025, marks a critical inflection point for countless organizations committed to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). While the sunsetting of any core strategic tool can introduce uncertainty, this mandatory transition is, in fact, an extraordinary opportunity. It is the