Day 2 of this week’s CSPO class. One of the hardest shifts for Product Owners is learning to stop obsessing over the work and start obsessing over the value. Customers don’t buy features. Stakeholders don’t fund backlog items. Organizations don’t succeed because teams completed tasks. They succeed because something got better. Too many Product Owners spend their time negotiating scope, writing requirements, and tracking delivery. The best Product Owners spend their time understanding problems, validating assumptions, measuring outcomes, and maximizing value. Reality doesn’t care how much work you did. Reality cares whether anything improved. Stop negotiating with reality. Start learning from it. #CSPO #ProductOwner #Scrum #Agile #ProductManagement #Empiricism #ProductDevelopment #CustomerValue #OutcomesOverOutput #EvidenceBasedManagement #ProductLeadership #FearlessAgility #ScrumMaster #AgileCoach #ProductThinking #MakeNecessaryTrouble #RealityWins

I had a member of my tribe ask me how to deal with the PMP and ADHD. Most ADHD advice is still built for neurotypical energy curves. That’s the problem. When I was studying for the PMP years ago, I brute forced it with six months of hyperfocus and sheer irritation at why software projects failed differently than construction and manufacturing projects. Wouldn’t recommend that strategy now. 😅 Today I work with my brain instead of trying to dominate it. For me that means: Ultradian focus blocks Scheduling around “chemical waves” Planned reset/recovery periods Zazen / mindfulness Reducing unnecessary context switching Shared visibility with my wife so we avoid “gear-shifting” conflict A lot of ND people don’t fail because they lack capability. They fail because they’re trying to operate inside systems designed for different nervous systems. ADHD ASD isn’t a moral failure. It’s a different operating model. And yes… sometimes the exact traits that create friction are also the things that create obsession-level mastery. That’s the whole point behind 2(e): Twice exceptional. Challenges are real. So are the superpowers. Reality wins. Give a shout about your experiences in the comments. Ask any questions you're curious about. #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #PMP #ProjectManagement #Agile #FearlessAgility #TwiceExceptional #Mindfulness

Two state titles. One dream. And a whole lot of work nobody (except @justkatkae) saw. (every fuckin' Match) Oregon HS State Champion. Oregon State Cup Champion. D1 bound this fall. What I’m proudest of isn’t the trophies. It’s the discipline. The early mornings. The constant work. The setbacks. The hours when nobody was clapping. The choice to keep showing up anyway. This picture says everything. One side celebrating. One keeper sitting in silence. That’s sports. That’s life. Reality wins. Proud beyond words of our youngest for earning every inch of this journey. The next level isn’t being handed to him. He built it. (He had some help) Now the real work begins. ⚽🔥 #Soccer #StateChampion #D1Bound #OregonSoccer #StateCup #NextLevel #StudentAthlete #HardWorkPaysOff #RealityWins #ProudJimi #NotAStepDad

Hit it today. w00t💯. The 12 people that helped me with our flex app at fearlessagility.ai can fight over who’s 10.5 (and I swear to god if anyone says 6-7 now I’ll lose my shit and listen to Skrilla at top volume.)

That was worth $100K 😂😫

Just submitted the first serious article I’ve written in a fat minute to the MIT Sloan Management Review.The piece grew out of a LinkedIn discussion that started with a simple observation: most organizations are arguing about which AI is “smarter” while completely ignoring the harder problem — human behavior change.That thread turned into a deeper argument: AI transformation is not primarily a technology problem. It’s an adaptation problem.The article explores why even advanced AI systems fail inside organizations that still reward performative process, fake alignment, and compliance over empiricism, experimentation, and learning.The core idea is simple: A mediocre AI inside a learning organization will outperform a brilliant AI trapped inside organizational make-believe.Feels good to be writing long-form thinking again instead of just shipping code, classes, and chaos into the world.#AI #Leadership #Agile #OrganizationalChange #DigitalTransformation

Everybody says they “know Scrum” until the ⚡ Lightning Round leaderboard goes live. 10 questions. 20 seconds each. Global rankings. No belts. No excuses. Current top score: 🔥 1370 Can you make the Top 10? Or is your Scrum knowledge mostly conference buzzwords and make-believe? Play: cloudtrivia.fearlessagility.… #Scrum #Agile #CloudTrivia #Gamification #RealityWins

One of the strongest moments from today’s workshop came from collaborating with a group of CSPO candidates on real backlog refinement for our live web app trivia platform. Instead of using fictional case studies or scripted exercises, participants worked through authentic product conversations: • refining enhancement ideas • identifying defects • splitting work • surfacing assumptions Tomorrow we'll... • Try a new (for them) virtual small-group consensus method • Use it to determine value • Put items into affinity groups by Size (real size not made-up "points") • Finish with an ordered list ready for our next real world Sprint Planning The energy changes when the work is real. Facilitation stops being pretend process management and becomes what it should be: helping groups navigate complexity, uncertainty, and competing perspectives together. Real world problems... real world experience. This is why I continue to believe experiential learning in a real project outperforms passive instruction. Reality wins. Join this weekend's CAF if you want to actually know how to do the job... fearlessagility.com/fearless… or... you know... go somewhere else and get slides and letters with no real substance. I only want A players. fearlessagility.ai #AgileLeadership #Facilitation #CAF #ProductOwnership #RealityWins

I’m 7 people away from 10,500 Fearless Agilists. That’s not a vanity number. That’s 10,500 people who chose to actually learn Scrum instead of playing make-believe. I’ve lived in towns smaller than that. Let’s finish this sprint strong. If you’ve been lurking… this is your moment. DM me (or email, or send a carrier pigeon 🐦) before this weekend’s Certified Agile Facilitator workshop and I’ll get you in with a quiet, unpublished discount. No forms. No hoops. Just signal you’re serious. Let’s make a little necessary trouble. #Agile #Scrum #AgileCoaching #ScrumMaster #ProductOwner #AgileTransformation #NeurodiversityAtWork #LeadershipDevelopment #MakeNecessaryTrouble #RealityWins

Cloud Dojo is live. • Scrum training without the fluff • Trivia battles that actually sharpen instincts • AI Sensei that answers like it’s been in the trenches No slides. No theory soup. 👉 fearlessagility.ai Reality wins. #Scrum #Agile #ScrumMaster #AgileCoach #ProductOwner #AgileLeadership