The friction testIf standup feels uncomfortable, the operating model is shifting. Lean in.
Tara slammed her laptop shut after the standup that had gone nuclear. “I was just trying to get us unblocked,” she told her manager at FinFlow. “I vibe-coded the first three steps of the new agent flow, dropped the prototype in Slack, and suddenly eng is yelling 'that's not shippable,' design is pissed I touched the wireframes.”
Week three of their “AI transformation.” The CEO had forwarded Claire Vo's thread with three fire emojis: “No lanes, people.” Everyone nodded. Then reality hit.
That friction? It's the sound of an operating model built for predictability getting dragged into rapid experimentation. Teams that lean in ship 2-3x faster. Those that don't spend six months arguing who owns what.