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The Invisible Skeleton: Why Governance Is the Price of Freedom

AI Governance & Risk Management

The Invisible Skeleton: Why Governance Is the Price of Freedom

[Views are my own] I have a confession to make. I write a lot about Governance, Systems, and Process. And almost every time I do, the reaction is the same: people assume I am the enemy of fun. At every time someone suggests introducing a "process" or following

Instruction Governance: The Missing Layer of Enterprise AI (Part 3 of 4)

AI Governance & Risk Management

Instruction Governance: The Missing Layer of Enterprise AI (Part 3 of 4)

[Views are my own] Part 3 – The Three Pillars of AI Governance Most enterprises are now past the “one AI pilot” phase. You have dozens of teams, dozens of models, and far more prompts than anyone can count. Each team has its own agent, its own prompt file, its own

The Foresight Gap: Why Your Last Success Is Building Your Next Crisis

Data-Driven Decision Making

The Foresight Gap: Why Your Last Success Is Building Your Next Crisis

Success hides fragility. Each growth stage plants the next crisis. The risk isn't debt but unseen debt across tech, culture, innovation, and governance. Make trade-offs visible, manage and pay them down, and build antifragile systems. Fast is fine. Blind is fatal. Track debt, hire for adaptability.

PAIR: A Simple Model for AI-Accelerated Apprenticeship

Human-AI Collaboration

PAIR: A Simple Model for AI-Accelerated Apprenticeship

AI should speed work, not erase the training ground. A Seniors-only + AI model boosts short-term output but drains your pipeline and increases risk. Try Senior + Junior + AI: juniors draft with AI, seniors inspect thinking. Treat mentorship as first-class work and measure it. Build great teams. Now.

Stop Hiring PM “Flavors.” Hire Keystones.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Stop Hiring PM “Flavors.” Hire Keystones.

Stop hiring PM “flavors” like “AI PM” or “Growth PM.” Hire Keystone PMs who integrate design, engineering, data and GTM, frame real problems, learn fast, and influence without authority. Durable capabilities compound; trends fade. Hire for outcomes, not buzzwords. Build missions, not titles.

Ghosts in the System: Why Naming Dysfunction Isn’t Fluff. It’s Infrastructure

Organizational Structure & Governance

Ghosts in the System: Why Naming Dysfunction Isn’t Fluff. It’s Infrastructure

Naming a dysfunction doesn’t solve it, but it makes it visible. Without shared language, teams treat symptoms, not systems: feature soup, strategy drift, prioritization theater. Name it to align, track patterns, and move from vague complaints to structural diagnosis and action.

The Prioritization Theater

Data-Driven Decision Making

The Prioritization Theater

When urgency replaces logic, roadmaps become theater. Frameworks and scores look right, but escalation wins, decisions shift, and PMs broker backlogs. Real prioritization means framing problems, making trade-offs explicit, linking to strategy, and empowering 'not now' with a clear why. Make it real.

Is your Agile process truly agile, or just Agile theater?

Cross-functional Collaboration

Is your Agile process truly agile, or just Agile theater?

Agile isn’t one-size-fits-all. Too many teams perform Agile theater: rituals without impact. In Enterprise SaaS, complexity demands both alignment and autonomy. A shared backlog as a single source of truth adds clarity and coordination without killing ownership or adaptability.