Over the past few weeks, I attended Xebia’s AI Leadership & Strategy training with Sander. Today was the final day. The funny thing is that somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking about AI. I started thinking about dating. Not because the course was bad. Actually, quite the opposite. The more we explored strategy, stakeholder management, business cases, communication, resistance, adoption, and organizational change, the more I found myself asking: “Why does this all feel

There is a strange ritual that happens inside organizations every few years. New boxes appear. Names move. Teams merge. Departments split. Fresh slides are created. Someone presents a shiny new structure. And then … hundreds of humans quietly enter survival mode. Because underneath every reorganization, a thousand invisible questions suddenly wake up. You can almost hear them. The clicking of keyboards updating profiles. The nervous laughter in meetings. The pause before som

Today was the first day of Xebia’s AI Strategy & Leadership course, facilitated by Sander Dur. Going in, I expected to spend most of the day discussing AI. Models. Agents. Automation. Use cases. Technology. Instead, I found myself thinking about Agile…. That may sound strange. After all, Agile and AI seem like completely different conversations. One emerged from software development and product thinking. The other is rapidly transforming how knowledge work is performed. Yet a

On Sunday, I wrote about something that stayed with me after the Rejekts conference: systems are growing faster than meaning That lens focused on architecture, layers, and cognitive load. But I like stepping into the same room twice. Looking again. Seeing what reveals itself from a different angle. Saturday was Rejekts. A full day of talks on Kubernetes, AI, platform engineering, and observability. Layer upon layer of capability. Abstraction. Power. Monday was something

(What Rejekts revealed when you listen between the talks) I went to the Rejekts conference for the talks. Kubernetes. AI. Platform engineering. Observability. But the real story wasn’t in any single talk. It was in what they all had in common. The Red Line, We Keep Adding Layers to Avoid Facing the Same Problem Every talk, in a different way, was solving this: “How do we manage the complexity we already created?” Not reduce it. Not question it. Manage it . Sveltos → Manage cl

Tonight I went to a meetup hosted by Tergos: Cloud DevOps Meet AI. Damn, what a great meetup! Great food, great conversations! And a engaging knowledgeable speaker who will soon be moving to the Australia! “We stepped of the plane and my daughter said in the first moment, we have to live here” “It is like the USA in the 1990s” On the surface, it was a technical evening. Cloud. DevOps. AI. Infrastructure. Models. Automation. Incident response. Deployment gates. Chaos engin

Stop Measuring Performance. Start Measuring Value. There is a reason metrics feel dangerous. It’s not because numbers are bad. It’s because most leaders measure the wrong thing, and measure it for the wrong reason. Metrics were never meant to prove competence. They were meant to test hypotheses. And somewhere along the way, we forgot that. Scientists Don’t Prove Themselves Right Before I moved fully into computer engineering, I studied chemical engineering. The most powerful

Why most teams optimize themselves into exhaustion There’s a moment in many conversations where I feel those in the room lean forward, not because something complex was said, but because something simple finally named what everyone has been living. In this conversation, that moment came when I reached for a metaphor I often use to explain the difference between single loop and double loop learning. Not because it’s clever. But because it’s uncomfortable. The toothbrush moment

Why most leaders mistake “fairness” for truth There is a moment in leadership that doesn’t show up on LinkedIn. It doesn’t come with applause. And it rarely gets written about honestly. It’s the moment when you realize: If I hadn’t slowed down, I would have made the wrong call, and destroyed trust in the process. Michel named that moment without defensiveness. And what makes his story uncomfortable is this: his instincts weren’t malicious. They were standard. The leadership l

As we peeled back the layers, Anca discovered that even when she felt stuck or powerless, the source of impact was already within her, grounded in values, courage, and purpose. 👉 Watch and read her full journey here: https://www.avagasso.com/post/anca-grigoras-from-imposter-to-integrated-leader

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