🎙️ What’s really happening inside your engineering org?

We explore how leaders can stop flying blind and start leading based on facts from the field.

✅ Gemba Walks (Japanese term meaning “go to the real place”):

Why your assumptions about how work gets done are probably wrong

How spending even one hour a week in the mob or at the code level changes everything

The myth of managing solely through middle managers

Why high-fidelity information beats filtered reporting

Remote-friendly adaptations: mobbing, Lean coffees, and async insight gathering

✅ Mobbing (also known as ensemble programming):

How mobbing surfaces capability gaps and builds shared understanding

Growing capabilities without enforcing rigid standards

Real stories of capability fire drills, single points of failure, and org fragility

“Low and slow” growth as the only sustainable path to true skill development?

✅ Fixing Batch Size and WIP (Work In Progress):

How large batches lead to delivery waste, delays, and bugs

The surprising power of reducing ticket size to unlock flow

Socratic coaching at stand-ups to improve team work slicing

Giving permission to drop non-priority work and focus only on what matters

✅ Building a Learning Culture:

Why capability resilience > retaining every team member forever

Using “nudges” and peer pressure the right way

Investing in bright spots without ignoring skeptics

Cultivating environments where psychological safety and growth feed off each other