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Field Notes from Delivery

Practical, research-backed writing on flow metrics, Kanban, SAFe and Agile delivery, and the team dynamics that sit behind the numbers. By Vikas Agarwal.

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3 October 2026

LAYOFFs - The Org Chart got smaller. The Job Didn't

WEEKEND READ: What real 2026 data says about AI layoffs, shrinking teams, and who's left holding the WIP limit. Based on known, published market data, by September 29, 2026, 519 layoff events had occurred that year.

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Issue 05 · 1 October 2026

What Your Delivery Charts Are Actually Telling You

ISSUE 05: This Week: Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions, mapped to CFD, Lead Time Distribution, and Burn-Down Chart. Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is built as a pyramid.

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Issue 04 · 24 September 2026

How to Actually Read a Cumulative Flow Diagram

ISSUE 04: This Week: Explaining CFD through a real worked example. A Cumulative Flow Diagram is older than most of the frameworks built on top of it.

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21 September 2026

Disney Didn't Have a CTO Until This Week

What a hundred-year-old company just admitted about who owns delivery Disney has existed since 1923. It has run theme parks on four continents, produced thousands of films, operated a cable network, and built a direct-to-consumer streaming platform from nothing in under a decade.

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Issue 03 · 17 September 2026

Sounds like a Five-minute change: Red, Green, Refactor

ISSUE 03: This Week: TECHNICAL NOTES · TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT Your team just got asked to add a free-shipping rule. Follow along as you build it one failing test at a time, the way Kent Beck and Robert Martin intended.

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12 September 2026

The H-1B Grace Period May Be Ending. Here's What to Do.

A proposed DHS rule would end the 60-day window H-1B workers currently get after losing a job. It hasn't happened yet.

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Issue 02 · 10 September 2026

Nobody Owns the Pipeline. That's a DevOps Problem

ISSUE 02: This Week: The DEPENDENCY that is NOT Visible on the Planning Board. Your backlog can be immaculate, and your delivery can still stall on a shared pipeline nobody owns.

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Issue 01 · 3 September 2026

Why ProvCraft Is Three Businesses, Not One

Training, consultancy, and coaching aren't three businesses. They're three doors into the same underlying problem. ProvCraft is now live.

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