Adam Mattis

In 2018 I started a company focused on 3D printing carbon fiber road racing bicycles. My goal was to produce the first 3D-printed bike to...

The Ford Pinto was a vehicle born of crisis. A combination of tighter emissions standards, a fuel shortage, and the rise of inexpensive...

At the end of each year I share a list of the books that I consumed throughout the year. Below is a list of everything I read in 2021. ...

SAFe can hurt – but not as bad as a moto crash. : ) Why do some people find SAFe to be helpful in empowering teams while others find...

The airlines, like Delta, have long understood the power of a curated customer experience to assure loyalty. As the post-digital economy...

How We Used DevOps to Rework Our DevOps Course There’s no faster way to kill a conversation among a non-technical crowd than to begin...

I was monitoring the chat traffic in Dean’s Implementing SAFe class last week when one of the learners asked about how to describe...

Adam’s networking cabinet. What is the best nerdy investment you can make? Work from home has always been part of life as a traveling...

SAFe and Business Architecture. As organizations begin their Lean and Agile journey with SAFe®, SPCs will introduce a tool designed to...

The challenge of economic prioritization with WSJF. On the surface, the foundations of job sequencing in considering the Weighted...

Also posted on the Scaled Agile blog HERE. When deciding where to launch an Agile Release Train (ART), it can be tempting to look within...

This is the second post in my short series on landing change well. Read the first post here. Managing change is as much of an art as it...

At risk of sounding like everyone else who is reflecting on 2020: what a year. There have been some amazing things to come out of what...

Hollywood has a way of portraying philosophers as pretentious finders of fault. (Emily in Paris, I love you, but you are guilty of this.)...

We’re moving forward! Finally, after several years of roadblocks and stalls, my book is full-steam ahead. What is it about? People...

Also published on the Scaled Agile blog HERE. Now that SAFe® 5.0 is live, I wanted to take a minute­­ to reset the baseline on what...

If you’ve spent much time working in enterprise environments, you might have heard about the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). And if...

The Consequence of Toxic Leadership. During the years I have spent working as a Management Consultant most of my time has been spent...

Each time I present to an audience I am asked about the books I have read that most contributed to may of thinking and working. In the...

“I can’t call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write, even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person...