Duena Blomstrom’s Reads and Rants

Once in a blue moon some insta-influencer takes it upon themselves to adopt one of the staples of controversy in the technology world today - either "Agile doesn't work" or "Agile is over/done/out" or "Agile is about process only i.e. not a mindset".
We at Tech Led Culture, strongly refute that and in fact can demonstrate very clearly that without the ways of thinking, you will never have the ways of working. Not only that but the article we are showing you from Duena's archives today is from 2018! Replace "Agile is a fad" with "Agile is not a mindset" or "Agile doesn't matter" or "doesn't work" and every word still stands.

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📌 2026 Framework Update

This episode maps to the V9 canonical framework — Psychological Safety → Human Debt™ → Execution Integrity → Human Machine Intelligence™.

Execution Drift Control: https://duenablomstrom.com/concepts/execution-drift-control
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Books: duenablomstrom.com/books
Full framework: duenablomstrom.com/what-is-execution-integrity

Duena Reads The Preface to her book People Before Tech : The Importance Of Psychological Safety In the Digital Age. 

📌 2026 Framework Update

This episode maps to the V9 canonical framework — Psychological Safety → Human Debt™ → Execution Integrity → Human Machine Intelligence™.

Human Verification Density™: https://duenablomstrom.com/concepts/human-verification-density
Apply it: HILF — Human-in-the-Loop Foundations™ (€495)
Books: duenablomstrom.com/books
Full framework: duenablomstrom.com/what-is-execution-integrity

This piece was formally in our members vault at Tech-Led culture, but in light of the current DORA report (2023) controversy, seeing how Mr Tech (Dave Bally) and Mrs People (Duena Blomstrom) have already discussed it on the "people AND tech" Podcast and their burgeoning belief that the report really is indicating something that Duena has been saying for years "These are signs of Human Debt that translate into Tech Debt and burnout", we decided to re-list as a free episode.

In this piece, Duena calls out the fragmentation of the tech community into multiple sub communities with so much burnout, imposter syndrome and lack of Anti-Human Debt skills, that they are unable to steer the rest of all organisational functions towards the a Tech Led Culture of human work and collaboration as prerequisites for fast, reliable, client-beloved technology of the future.

📌 2026 Framework Update

This episode maps to the V9 canonical framework — Psychological Safety → Human Debt™ → Execution Integrity → Human Machine Intelligence™.

Human Debt™: https://duenablomstrom.com/concepts/human-debt
Apply it: EI Diagnostic
Books: duenablomstrom.com/books
Full framework: duenablomstrom.com/what-is-execution-integrity