Definitely, Maybe Agile
Definitely, Maybe Agile
Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
Two Speeds, One Organization
19 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
Setting The Stage: The Great Decoupling
Two Speeds Of Product Management
AI Accelerates Experiments, Org Slows Delivery
Constraints At Gates And Reviews
Flow Thinking And Bottlenecks Multiply
Cultural Rupture And Escalation Traps
Rethinking Boundaries And Roles
Funding, Cadence, And Day-Scale Delivery
Internal Startup Speed Meets Enterprise Controls
Bypassing Controls And Release Discipline
Takeaways And Next Steps
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Something is shifting inside organizations right now, and it's creating a split that's hard to ignore. AI is compressing the time it takes to generate, validate, and prototype ideas. Some people inside your org are moving at a completely different speed than the systems built to support them. Peter and Dave are calling it the great decoupling, and it's already happening whether you've noticed it or not. In this episode, they dig into why acceleration in one part of a system creates pressure e...