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Tech Buzzwords 2025: The Rebranding Racket Behind This Year's Biggest BS

Dec 15, 2025

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8 min read

Tech Buzzwords 2025: The Rebranding Racket Behind This Year's Biggest BS

Tech's 2025 innovation wasn't breakthrough technology, it was breakthrough bullshit. Here's the hall of fame for rebranding old code as revolution.

Customer-Centric Delivery: Not About Feelings, About Money

Dec 8, 2025

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8 min read

Customer-Centric Delivery: Not About Feelings, About Money

Your customer-centric approach isn't about being nice, it's about making money. Real customer-centricity drives revenue, not satisfaction scores.

Metric Creep: When KPIs Go to Die

Dec 1, 2025

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11 min read

Metric Creep: When KPIs Go to Die

Your dashboards grew from 3 meaningful metrics to 24 meaningless ones. Here's how zombie KPIs, vanity metrics, and metric inflation kill clarity.

Why Data-Driven Teams Make Bad Decisions (And How to Fix It)

Nov 24, 2025

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6 min read

Why Data-Driven Teams Make Bad Decisions (And How to Fix It)

Your dashboard is gorgeous but your decisions are still trash. Stop treating data like a magic 8-ball and start asking better questions.

Stop Lying to Yourself About "Continuous Improvement"

Nov 17, 2025

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6 min read

Stop Lying to Yourself About "Continuous Improvement"

Your "continuous improvement" is corporate theater. Teams perform improvement with sticky notes, not real work. Here's how to spot it and get better.

App Launches Don't Fail at the Finish Line; They Fail at the Start

Nov 10, 2025

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4 min read

App Launches Don't Fail at the Finish Line; They Fail at the Start

Your app launches fail because nobody knows who's supposed to do what when crunch time hits. Build countdown systems that run themselves.

The Corporate Bullshit Survival Guide: Because Sometimes You Need to Sound Strategic While Quietly Screaming Inside

Nov 3, 2025

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7 min read

The Corporate Bullshit Survival Guide: Because Sometimes You Need to Sound Strategic While Quietly Screaming Inside

Master corporate doublespeak to survive impossible demands. Translation tactics for when your project's on fire and you need to sound strategic.

The Agile Prison You Built Yourself

Oct 27, 2025

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7 min read

The Agile Prison You Built Yourself

Daily standups waste 7 hours weekly on status theater. You built this Agile prison yourself. Here's how to get real coordination without the ritual.

Your Client Isn't Demanding. You Just Didn't Set Expectations

Oct 20, 2025

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10 min read

Your Client Isn't Demanding. You Just Didn't Set Expectations

Stop blaming demanding clients. You never set expectations. Your expectation management is broken, and that's why projects turn into nightmares.

Why I Keep Bringing Up Cargo Cults (And Why You Should Care)

Oct 13, 2025

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9 min read

Why I Keep Bringing Up Cargo Cults (And Why You Should Care)

Cargo cult thinking destroys software teams copying agile practices without understanding why. Learn the difference between mimicking and understanding success.

You Don't Need More Alignment Meetings. You Need Fewer Delusions.

Oct 6, 2025

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7 min read

You Don't Need More Alignment Meetings. You Need Fewer Delusions.

Your alignment problem isn't communication. It's decision avoidance. Stop scheduling alignment into oblivion and start making the hard choices.

Why Smart People Become Priority Addicts (And How to Cure Them)

Sep 29, 2025

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12 min read

Why Smart People Become Priority Addicts (And How to Cure Them)

Your smartest stakeholders are priority addicts who hoard urgent projects. Understand the psychology behind it and learn how to cure them.

You Can't "North Star" Your Way Out of Poor Execution

Sep 22, 2025

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13 min read

You Can't "North Star" Your Way Out of Poor Execution

Stop confusing direction with capability. Learn why execution management moves North Star metrics, not strategic planning.

RACI Charts Aren't the Problem. You Are.

Sep 15, 2025

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11 min read

RACI Charts Aren't the Problem. You Are.

RACI isn't broken, you're using it wrong. Stop massive matrices and accountability avoidance. Learn effective responsibility assignment.

Priority Poker: Where Planning Meets Office Politics

Sep 8, 2025

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11 min read

Priority Poker: Where Planning Meets Office Politics

Your prioritization frameworks fail because they ignore office politics. Here's the only method honest about how product decisions really get made.

The Real Reason Product Roadmaps Get Ignored

Sep 1, 2025

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9 min read

The Real Reason Product Roadmaps Get Ignored

Your roadmap fails because it's built on fantasy. Learn why teams ignore it and explore frameworks that drive real product decisions.

How to Do a Project Health Check Without Wasting Everyone's Time

Aug 25, 2025

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12 min read

How to Do a Project Health Check Without Wasting Everyone's Time

Your project health assessment is killing productivity with status theater. Here's a 30-minute health check that identify real problems instead of wasting time.

Agile Without Scrum: Is That Even Allowed?

Aug 18, 2025

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11 min read

Agile Without Scrum: Is That Even Allowed?

Your scrum theater kills productivity while ignoring agile principles. Focus on outcomes over ceremonies to build software that actually matters.

Story Points: The Exhausting Philosophy of Fake Precision

Aug 11, 2025

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10 min read

Story Points: The Exhausting Philosophy of Fake Precision

Here's why agile estimation is broken, what story points actually measure, and better ways to plan work that doesn't insult everyone's intelligence.

Advanced Remote Retrospective Psychology: When Basic Techniques Fail

Aug 4, 2025

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7 min read

Advanced Remote Retrospective Psychology: When Basic Techniques Fail

Stop running remote retrospectives that change nothing. This complete framework creates timezone accountability, surfaces real distributed work issues, and drives measurable improvement.

Remote Retrospectives That Actually Work

Aug 4, 2025

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6 min read

Remote Retrospectives That Actually Work

Stop running remote retro theater (it's not working). Your distributed team deserves better than polite complaining sessions. Here's how to fix real problems.

The Uncomfortable Questions That Actually Fix Remote Retrospectives

Aug 4, 2025

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3 min read

The Uncomfortable Questions That Actually Fix Remote Retrospectives

Start asking questions that surface real remote work problems. Here are the uncomfortable conversations your distributed team needs to have.

Your Stakeholders Have No Clue What They Want. Here's What to Do.

Jul 28, 2025

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5 min read

Your Stakeholders Have No Clue What They Want. Here's What to Do.

Your stakeholder management is failing because they communicate in buzzwords. Learn effective requirements gathering techniques to extract real needs from confused stakeholders and protect your project scope.

5-Step Framework for Real Requirements from Confused Stakeholders

Jul 28, 2025

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9 min read

5-Step Framework for Real Requirements from Confused Stakeholders

Stop playing guessing games with confused stakeholders. This 5-step framework helps you extract real requirements from people who communicate in buzzwords.

Advanced Stakeholder Management Tactics When Nice Doesn't Work

Jul 28, 2025

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5 min read

Advanced Stakeholder Management Tactics When Nice Doesn't Work

When stakeholders won't make decisions and keep changing requirements, you need advanced tactics. Here's how to handle chaos with direct confrontation.

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