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2026
27 articles- Agility at the Edge
- What Questions Tell Us About Agile System Design
- Focus on Flow, Not Where People Sit
- Modelling Team Constraints in AI Delivery
- The First, Worst Solution to Agile Change
- Agility Can Only Be Pulled, It Can’t Be Pushed
- AI Product Managers Are Rediscovering Agile
- Make Your Agile More DIY and Less SOP
- Addressing the Root Cause of Coordination Costs
- Give Teams Better Tools, Not More Instructions
- The Cost Explicit Processes Have on Collaboration and Informal Structures
- Building Sustainable Delivery Systems
- Moving from Agile Maturity Models to Continuous Fitness
- Kanban for the AI-Augmented Organization
- Making the Wrong Things Easier
- Falling Into the Agile Delivery Trap
- The Adaptive Enablement Loop
- SquadView
- Burnup Forecaster
- Alternatives to American Services
- A Catalogue of Problems
- 2025 Year in Review
- 2026 Year In Review
- Building Team Flow Mapping
- Decision Making as the Source of Problems
- My Emacs Writing Setup
- Kanban and Pulling Out Agility
2025
16 articles- Stop Blaming Teams: See the System
- There's No One Right Way
- Better Planning with Two-Sided Dependencies
- Navigating the AI Shift With the Wardley Doctrine
- AI Transformations Are Hard-Agile
- Unmasking the Invisible Overhead of Meetings
- Making Work More Human
- Maximize Productivity by Minimizing Context Switching
- Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model
- People Are the Heart of Any Practice
- Unbundle the Value
- From Big Bang Projects to Iterative and Incremental Development
- Favourite Things
- My AI Learning Journey
- Just Do Something Different
- We Don't Know
2024
13 articles- Beyond Practices: Behaviours and Goals in Agile
- Achieving Agility Through Strong Mechanics
- The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
- Avoiding Agile Must-Dos
- Making Progress Through Questions
- Starting Agile With Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
- Drift to Waterfall
- One-Time Efforts
- 9 Golden Rules for Agile Teams: Principles to Improve Collaboration
- How Agile Coaches Can Empower Teams To Deal With Uncertainty
- Avoiding the Practice Trap: Fostering Genuine Agility
- Using Culture as a Lens to Solve Organizational Challenges
- 2023 Year in Review
2023
24 articles- The Team Dependency Matrix
- Creating Focus Through User Needs Mapping and Core Domain Mapping
- Just Enough Kanban
- Mapping Options Using a Risk-Value Matrix
- Experimenting With Controlling Cycle Time Instead of WIP
- Don't Write User Stories, Tell Stories
- The Power of Predictable Delivery
- Manage the Value, Not the Work
- Avoiding The Pitfalls of Cross-Functional Super Teams
- An Agile Alternative to “Fixing”
- Where Are The Problems?
- Rethinking Retrospectives
- Why Work Waits
- Running, Falling, and the Core of Agile
- How I Use Scrum to Teach Agility
- My Agile Sketching Experiment
- Revisiting the Guidance on Cross-functional Teams
- Miroverse Template: Squad Health Check
- 2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
- Making Change Where Change is Possible
- Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
- Test-Driven Goals: A Scalable and Effective Pattern
- South Korea, April 2023
- 2022 Recap
2022
7 articles- Starting a Wardley Map with a Mental Model Diagram
- Capturing Customer Jobs Using a Mental Model Diagram
- Learning Agile with ChatGPT
- Turn Jira's Control Chart Into a Lead Time Scatterplot
- Comparing and Remixing the Gemba Walk
- Quick Jira Control Chart Aging WIP Hack
- Snapshot: Introducing Ready Options to a B2B Service Team
2013
7 articles2012
76 articles- Facebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
- A Quick Look at the Surface Site
- Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins
- Success for the Mobile Context
- The Social Story of a Brand
- Mapping the Brand Story
- Each Platform Has its Own Story
- The Purpose of Each Platform
- Use Stories to Affect Stories
- How Customers Engage With a Brand's Story
- Story Gets Us to Emotion
- Customers Create Stories for Every Interaction
- The Reason for Innovation
- Basic Business Metrics
- Research & Insights Into Stories
- Stories and Understanding
- Media Tells Stories
- Stories = Understanding the World
- The Mobile Context
- Story Makes it Relevant
- The Social Context
- App as Digital Proxy
- A Network of People, Devices, and Things
- Future Stories
- The Evolution of Story
- Digital Strategy
- Digital Strategy & UX Strategy
- User Experience Strategy
- The Digital Strategy Process
- iOS's Disposable Games
- Paleo Mode
- Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency
- Four Platforms That Are Changing Writing
- The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org
- iCloud Storage: Many Shallow Ponds
- What's Next For The Mac?
- Immersive Apps vs Immersive Content
- From Searches to Apps to Siri
- It Works Just Like Your Phone
- The New Outlook.com
- Designing A Better Email Client
- Splitting the Social Network for the Best User Experience
- The End of the PC Manufacturers
- Uncovering the Compromises of Metro Style Apps
- Putting Metro on iOS
- Analyzing The New Mac Ads
- The Desktop Is Done, Think Like iOS
- Designing Metro Apps on iOS
- What Has Microsoft Learned From Metro?
- The User Interfaces of CrossFit and Paleo
- Understanding OmniFocus: Attention
- RIM Honestly
- Re-Reading
- The Most Enjoyable Reading Experience
- Daily Photo Logging with Google+
- Three Years of GTD and Things
- Improving How I Use Evernote
- Clear and Paper
- Using More of Apple's iOS Apps
- Paper by FiftyThree
- Clear from Realmac Software
- It's All For Happiness
- A Better Facebook Won't Help You
- Brands Faking Human
- Om Malik's 10 Years of Blogging
- Gamification Must Be Addictive
- A Brand Is Not Your Friend
- Shut Up and Take My Money!
- Why Can The iPad Be Frustrating?
- Making Media Easier
- Email Declining
- My Initial Experience With iCloud
- Thought Process
- Advice to Writers by Vonnegut
- GameStore
- 2011 Accomplishments
2011
32 articles- CrossFit Update
- Publishing Markdown
- Because The Market Needs Non-Value Creators
- PayPal's One-Stop Flop
- Getting Excited About Computing
- Papercut
- The Platform Owners Are In Control
- Compromise
- An Office on Every Surface
- Which Platform Is For Creating?
- The End of Failure
- How the iPad Shattered The PC
- My Problem With Anti-Social Networking
- What Text Editors Tell us About Apple's Ecosystem
- Where's The Innovation?
- Give it Your Best Shot
- Only The Hard Stuff Matters
- Refining The Innovative And The New
- Day One and Learning to Journal
- Learning to Trash It and Start Over
- Making Products Last
- The New Air
- Plattan Plus
- Coffee Hop: March 20, 2011
- Blogging and Toastmasters
- The Prize of Attention
- Making
- The End of the Feature Economy
- The Future of Real-time Chat and Beluga
- Put it Down
- Being Real About Tools and Work
- Thinking About Technology Innovation That Sticks
2010
55 articles- A Recap of 2010
- The Value of Tablet Huddle Experiences
- F the File System
- Get Into a Better Routine
- Blogging to Push Ideas
- How Evernote Made Remembering Everything Simple
- Getting a Slight Idea
- Reeder for Mac a Sign of Things to Come
- Introducing BM Stack
- More Focused Writing With OmmWriter
- The Importance of Work
- Phones That Feel Like Magic
- Diluting Brands in the World of Smartphones
- Don't Let the Interruption Become Your Focus
- Slap On Social
- notepad table is a table that is also a notepad. WANT
- The Newness and The Promise of Windows Phone 7
- Innovating For a Windows Tablet
- Going Nowhere Without Mobile
- This Virtuous Circle
- The Whole Thing
- As Tumblr Changes From Platform To Network
- Start Small
- Gowalla
- Models to Focus Your Thinking
- What happens when all search becomes instant?
- Ruthlessly Reveal
- Searching for Focus - Ryerson Digital Media Zone
- 1 Window
- Pomodoro Everything
- Repeated Focus
- Attention to Detail Versus Features
- Your Ideas And Blogging the Crap Out of Them
- Optimal Connections
- Trying to Find the Smaller Conversations
- When Identity and Blogs Don't Mix
- Create Share Consume and Organize
- Flipboard
- Where I Learn I Suck at Reading, But That's OK
- Something Routine
- Best to Wait on Ebooks
- Virtual Bookshelves Are a Pain
- The Better Tech Conference Survey
- Drumbeat and Project Orange
- Drumbeat The Open Web Lens
- Drumbeat Will The Internet of Things be Open?
- Drumbeat Models for Discussion on the Open Web
- But What Do You Do?
- Malcolm Visits the Zoo
- Desktop Mouse Movement
- What The Heck Makes Tumblr a "Designed" Company
- Real Virtual-Neighbours Are The Best Kind
- Reblogging - Not So Much
- Share Your Data
- The Sandwich Rebuttal
2009
107 articles- Christmas Turkey!
- Back. With Style No Less.
- Ryerson's Digital Media Zone
- Pomodoro Timer by Navel Labs
- Notes from Gary V. at DemoCamp24
- My First Contribution to TechVibes.com
- Notes From Roger Martin on Design Thinking
- YouTube Direct
- WriteRoom for iPhone 2.4 now in app store
- The Logic Baffles Me
- If I Had Asked
- Readability2 – A Readability Mod
- Bean: An OS X Word Processor
- Driving my Elize in Forza 3
- Notes from Gary Vaynerchuk at Rotmans
- The rules for computing happiness
- Why Do You Fan Companies on Facebook?
- Search Ad Search Ad - Recursion Problem?
- Adding Some Mint to Real-Time Search
- JustNotes
- Minimal Mac
- Have I Not Explained It All Yet?
- Being Obsessive Is Part of The Fun
- Could Dropbox Do This? A Business Idea
- Tumblr and Posterous In Every Possible Way
- Chatting About Event Overload In Toronto
- Music made using only sounds from Windows 95 and 98
- Pseudo Augmented Reality
- My One Keyboard Struggle
- Turn Anything Into a Social Something
- An Introduction To The New Life-Streaming
- The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
- Malcolm is...
- Linux + Chrome + Flash
- Chrome + CrunchBang Linux
- Corporate Control of Social Media
- Engagement and The Long Tail of Social Media Discussions
- Social Being, Media Meaning
- The Power of Framing Social Dialogue
- Persistence and Momentum
- My Favourite Korean Dish
- Rain in Roncesvalles
- The System That Works
- The Invisible Bridge
- Sentiment Strikes Back
- Teaser - Toronto Dev Interview 2
- Blog More and Do Less
- Sentiment Vs. Engagement in Online Listening
- T Cafe
- We Notice What We Choose To Notice
- Curating
- Speak Loudly
- Ubuntu On Netbooks - NBR VS Keyboard Control With Gnome Do
- Renewal
- How Can I Improve My Blog For You?
- Examining \"Share of Conversation\"
- The Next Step For Net Geners
- Colemak Keyboard - Still Better Than Dvorak?
- Criticizing Your Friends is Hard
- Creating Communities Through Experience Blogs
- Listening to Two Conversations is Hard
- If You Expect Them to Talk
- A Risky Approach to Feedback
- What I Want To Podcast
- My Goal For The Summer? More Seesmic
- At Odds
- Open Conversations Will Kill Your Company
- A Great Storyteller
- Is It A Site? A Business? Or Mostly Just Twitter?
- Why I Don't Like New Charities Every Month
- Internal Micro Messaging Platforms Are Gold
- The Reality Of The Crowds
- The Crowds I Own
- Twitter Style Redesigns And What They Share
- Identity 2.0 - An Introduction to Identity On the Social Web
- After The Digital Handshake, What Comes Next?
- Is This How Brand Squatting Will Be Defeated?
- Mind Map of Issues Surrounding Identity 2.0
- New Job: Social Media Analyst at Blast Radius
- 6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009
- New Facebook, And Everyone Hates Malcolm
- Getting More By Acting Early in Social Media
- Are Brands Better Off When They Act Like Their Customers Online?
- The Reason That Social Analytics Will Succeed Over Traditional
- Stop Being So Damned Shady On Twitter
- Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future
- Facebook, Fear, and The Risky Divide
- How Creative Is Your Business Technology?
- Investing In Yourself: A Practical Guide
- Some DISQUS and Intense Debate Thoughts - They Both Need Work
- Use Your Blog as a Notetaking Tool
- GoodBye Tests And Quizes, Hello Comments
- Students Are Faced With An Education Problem
- Blogging: The Long Term Relationship
- Languages Evolve, Twitter's Should Too
- Social Networks as Trust Building Tools
- Face it Linux, Most Netbooks Will Sell Windows 7
- Creating A River of Web Media Content
- Colemak Keyboard Layout - Better Than QWERTY, Better Than Dvorak
- Recommended Wordpress Plugins For New Bloggers
- CrunchBang Linux, Netbooks at High Speed
- How Good Is the Asus Eee 1000?
- Single In, Single Out
- Take Your Learning To The Comments
- The Real Limit Of Social Media
- The York University Strike As A Great Opportunity
- Social Media Is Not For You
2008
19 articles- With Books Like These, Who Needs School?
- Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009
- Watch Out - Great Looking Ubuntu Intrepid Apps
- Cross Post - Announcing Toronto Dev
- The Best Motivational Speakers Say "F*ck"
- The Secret to Twitter Monetization Is...
- Zenbe Is A Good Attempt At Enlightened Email
- Getting Into The Mixx
- In PostRank We Trust
- 3x3 Lessons From My Summer Reading Part 1
- Why Laptops Will Replace Professors
- Moving Towards A Self-Hosted Cloud
- The Micro-Blogging Enabled Company
- Why Laconica Means Big Things For Corporate Micro Blogging
- Be Your Own Purple Cow
- Don't Take This Personally, I'm Blocking You On Twitter
- Taking A First Look at Digital Marketing
- Who Would Go To A University Unconference?
- My 14 Most Valuable RSS Feeds