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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Hero | What Servant Leadership Really Means: Episode 116 (opens the original)
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What does servant leadership look like when you’re responsible for more than one team?In this episode of Take Five IRL, Jeff Lee and Mike Studeman explore why servant leadership becomes even more important at the senior director level. The job isn’t to attend every meeting or solve every problem yourself. It’s to address the conflicting priorities, delayed decisions, outdated policies, and cross-functional bottlenecks that make good work harder than it needs to be.They discuss how leaders can cr
You're Not Done. You're Just Creating Inventory. (opens the original)
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When your team says a feature is “done,” what still has to happen before it can actually be released? Documentation? Testing? Traceability updates? Quality review? Risk assessment? Every “yes” represents unfinished work—and unfinished work is inventory that slows flow, extends cycle times, and creates the end-of-release scramble regulated teams know too well. In the newest episode of Take Five IRL, Pat Campbell and Mike Studeman explain why a Definition of Done is more than a checklist. It’s a p
Why AI Readiness Starts With Leadership: Episode 114 (opens the original)
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AI isn’t going to fix your organization’s problems. In fact, it might help you create them faster.In this episode of Take Five IRL, Mike Studeman and Pat Campbell explore why true AI readiness doesn’t start with choosing the right technology, it starts with leadership.AI is a multiplier. Strong priorities, effective decision-making, and healthy product development systems can become even better with AI. But unclear priorities, overloaded teams, and broken processes? AI can accelerate those too.M
Stop Funding Projects. Start Funding Flow. | How Leaders Can Improve Delivery - Episode 113 (opens the original)
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What if the way your organization funds work is actually slowing delivery down?In this episode of Take Five IRL, Mike Studeman and Pat Campbell tackle a potentially controversial idea: Stop funding projects. Start funding flow.They’re not arguing that projects should disappear. Instead, they explore what happens when organizations continually launch and fund new projects without increasing capacity. More work enters the system, WIP increases, teams context-switch, dependencies grow—and delivery
Compliance Isn't Slowing You Down. This Is. (opens the original)
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Does compliance really slow down innovation in medical device product development?It can certainly feel that way. But the real problem often isn't compliance itself—it's when and how quality and regulatory work gets done.In this episode of Take 5 IRL, agilityIRL partners Pat Campbell and Mike Studeman challenge the common belief that regulated product development forces organizations to choose between speed and compliance.When documentation, traceability, verification, risk controls, Quality, an
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