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Mike Hall

Mike Hall

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Jan 15

Reinvigorate Your SAFe Transformation with a Product Operating Model Concept

Many SAFe transformations stall or fail to deliver the promised benefit of business agility. One prominent reason for these failures is…

Mike Hall

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Dec 3, 2025

Stop the Madness — Technical Tasks as Backlog Items

In my 20+ years of coaching Agile Teams and orgs, this is one of the most pervasive and disheartening aspects I have seen.

Stop the Madness — Technical Tasks as Backlog Items

Mike Hall

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Oct 15, 2025

Leveraging AI in the Product Operating Model: Accelerating Discovery and Delivery

In today’s fast-paced product development landscape, the Product Operating Model (POM) emphasizes close collaboration between the Product…

Leveraging AI in the Product Operating Model: Accelerating Discovery and Delivery

Mike Hall

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Sep 29, 2025

A Leaner Alternative to SAFe for Agile Transformation

Considering SAFe for your Agile transformation? Pause and explore a more tailored, effective approach. Having led successful large-scale…

A Leaner Alternative to SAFe for Agile Transformation

Mike Hall

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Sep 24, 2025

SAFe’s Feature Factory vs. Product Operating Model Empowered Teams

SAFe’s emphasis on writing Features and waterfalling them into the Agile Teams is unfortunate.

SAFe’s Feature Factory vs. Product Operating Model Empowered Teams

Mike Hall

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Feb 2, 2025

It’s Not About Launching an ART!

I’m often asked, “When will my team join an ART?” My typical go-to answer is, “Maybe never! It’s more about finding the leanest operating…

It’s Not About Launching an ART!

Mike Hall

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Nov 20, 2023

Book Review and Quotes: “Empowered Agile Transformation — Beyond the Framework”

Empowered Agile Transformation — Beyond the Framework, by Alexandra Stokes, 2023

Book Review and Quotes: “Empowered Agile Transformation — Beyond the Framework”

Mike Hall

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Aug 25, 2023

Your Agile Transformation is Doomed to Failure — 5 Red Alerts!

Wouldn’t it be great if there was guidance on how to know if your Agile transformation is doomed to failure? Perhaps a short set of…

Red Alert button

Mike Hall

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Aug 25, 2023

Agile Approach Consistency — Good or Bad Idea?

As Agilists, we preach “We want empowered teams!” But we turn right around and tell the teams to use the Scrum (or Kanban) framework. Why…

Different approaches

Mike Hall

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Aug 5, 2023

Abby-Normal Agile Transformations

Ever wonder what the “Young Frankenstein” movie has in common with Agile transformations? Me neither. Until now. While channel surfing…

Igor with the Abby-Normal brain

Mike Hall

Mike Hall

I am a Lean-Agile Product Coach with 20+ years of transformation experience. My specialty is speeding flow of VALUE to Customers. More: www.agileauthority.com

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