From Stand-ups to Sit-downs: McKinsey Explains Why Your Agile Isn’t Agile Enough
For years, boardrooms have been told that a few sticky notes, two pizzas and something called a “squad” would deliver digital nirvana. Now, as AI quietly writes more code than most junior developers, McKinsey arrives with a more sacrilegious proposition: perhaps it is not the tools that are broken, but the way your armies of “agile” teams still work like a 2010 Jira demo. In this talk, Martin Harrysson and Natasha Maniar argue that if enterprises want more than a 5–15% productivity bump from AI, they will have to dismantle the comfy rituals of Agile, shrink their teams, redraw roles and let agents do the drudgery while humans become orchestrators-in-chief.
Congrats, You’re Not Building Software, You’re Just Replacing the Interns
This piece politely informs every AI SaaS founder that their precious “product” is just a feature, and the real money is in selling outcomes like “your books are closed” or “your NDAs are done” while quietly eating the entire services budget
In Search of the Next 100‑Slide Deck
McKinsey - Where does consulting go from here
Apparently, the future of consulting is a bold new era where the same firms that helped optimize yesterday’s problems now promise to reinvent tomorrow with AI “agents,” trust-building, and (presumably) slightly fewer scandals per case study.
When Your AI Strategy Needs a Therapist
This HBR Episode captures the phase where every serious AI initiative comes wrapped in reassurances about purpose, trust, and operating models, like a sort of emotional UX layer for executives who secretly worry they’re just rebranding automation. There’s something charming about how often “culture” and “governance” show up as both diagnosis and cure, yet the core message is sound: if you don’t rethink incentives, decision rights, and how people actually work together, your shiny AI roadmap will quietly revert to business as usual.