Modern Development Blog
Company credos encapsulate organizational beliefs and serve as reference points to guide actions. Here's how we distilled our engineering philosophy into principles that enable teams to move autonomously while staying aligned.
Organizations spend millions on agile transformations—new frameworks, training, tools—but keep hiring for hierarchical structures. Turns out who you hire determines success more than which ceremonies you run.
Companies hire Scrum masters, implement ceremonies, deploy Kanban boards—but stay locked in hierarchical structures. Turns out organizational architecture determines what behaviors you can sustain, regardless of which framework you adopt.
Working on a project with the team of AI Agents... What can go wrong?
Manual approval processes intended to ensure quality often create the opposite—slower delivery, frustrated developers, quality issues that slip through. Here's what actually works.
Moving fast is easy. Sustaining velocity over months and years? That requires something deeper than ceremonies and story points. Here's what actually makes teams ship consistently.
Real patterns from teams that make their own decisions - what works, what falls apart, and why giving autonomy without the right support structure creates chaos instead of speed.
Most Architecture Review Boards slow teams down with approval gates. But they don't have to. Here's how ARBs can accelerate product development instead of blocking it.
Companies adopt the vocabulary of product thinking while keeping the power structure of project shops. Here's why the transformation stops at the slides.
Large companies claim they want innovation while their structure guarantees it will fail. Here's why the BAU vs. innovation split creates an immune system that rejects change.
When your organization grows, coupling debt kills velocity. Here's how to treat team structure like distributed systems architecture.