Agile and Scrum - Nigel Thurlow

The Cost of Keeping Everyone Busy: Why High Utilization Slows Knowledge Work

Why Keeping Everyone Busy Makes Knowledge Work Slower High [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-08-15T19:33:18-06:00August 23, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Toyota Production System, Uncategorized|

Why Transformations Fail: Leadership Must Change

The Transformation Leaders Want—and the Change They Avoid Are [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-08-14T10:41:38-06:00August 16, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Blog, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Toyota Production System|

How Scrum Rescued a Major Toyota Program

Management Summary In 2016 I was asked to review a [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-07-22T18:50:54-06:00January 6, 2023|Agile and Scrum, Blog, Featured, Lean Thinking|

The Agile Transformation Myth

The Agile transformation myth, a topic we introduced in the [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-07-22T18:52:46-06:00December 28, 2022|Agile and Scrum, Lean Thinking|