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Resources & Field Notes by Agile by Killette

The Library

Practical frameworks, playbooks, and tools from 20+ years in the field — useful whether we work together or not.
From ceremony to ownership.
Interactive · Start here

The Agile Lanes Diagnostic

A 60-second self-assessment. Answer seven questions and get your priority lanes, a first move for each, and a health read — a working taste of my Agile Health Assessment.

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Executive coaching series · Free deck

Value Streams — Two Perspectives, One Flow

Dev sees working software. Product sees customer outcomes. It's the same stream — here's how I coach both sides to own it, and exactly what I report from Jira at every stage. Includes the full 12-slide deck as a free PDF.

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Framework

The Agile Lanes

My delivery framework — the seven lanes I map every engagement to, from core execution to the human foundation beneath them all.

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Coaching perspective

Portfolio Management Coaching

Flow metrics above the team board, WIP limits set before the over-commitment, XL epics sliced, and funding moved off the project and onto the value stream — most of it committed during PI Planning.

See how I coach the portfolio →
Playbook

The AI + Jira Playbook

Real JQL queries for dependencies, flow, scope, risk, and ART health — and how AI turns each raw result into the insight leaders actually need.

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Guide

Backlog Health & Team WIP

What a healthy backlog looks like across Scrum, Kanban, and XP — and how a sick one quietly wrecks your work-in-progress and predictability.

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Coaching perspective

Team Agreements

The team's most underused tool — the operating system of a Dev Family, and how I put it to work to build self-governing teams.

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Field-tested framework

Trust & Protection

A new Scrum Master's first job isn't the board — it's their trust. The moves I use to earn it, and why protecting the team is the fastest way there.

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Coaching perspective

Managing the Dependencies

Dependencies are where delivery quietly dies. The seven moves I use to make them visible, owned, and sequenced — before they cost you a date.

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Role & positioning

The Delivery Manager

One accountable owner for delivery across your teams. What the role actually covers, and why Scrum Master, RTE, Coach, and PM add up to it.

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Coaching perspective

Agile Flexing

When someone uses their Agile knowledge to stand above the team instead of lifting it, the team goes quiet. How I raise that in a retro without putting anyone on trial.

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Experience

Backup RTE

What backing up a Release Train Engineer on an eight-team train actually covers — PI Planning, risk ROAMing, the confidence vote, dependencies, and impediments.

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Experience & credentials

Track Record

Every role, employer, and date — plus the metrics, the named methods I use, education, certifications, and the full toolchain. Résumé download included.

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In their words

Recommendations

What teammates, program leaders, and clients say — from Charles Schwab, LPL Financial, and AT&T, plus a full client letter.

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Want these mapped to your teams?

Every one of these is something I do hands-on. If your transformation has stalled or your train is wobbling, let's talk.

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