Flight Levels zeigen, wo in einer Organisation entschieden wird: operativ, koordinativ, strategisch. Verschachtelte Work–Feedback Loops zeigen, ob diese Ebenen tatsächlich lernen.
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Flight Levels show where decisions live in a system. Nested Work–Feedback Loops show whether those layers actually learn. Flight Levels describe operational, coordination, and strategic decision spaces. Useful. But structure alone does not guarantee adaptation.
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“We already have feedback.”
That sentence often marks the end of learning.
Most organizations do not suffer from a lack of signals. They collect user input, run surveys, track incidents, analyze metrics, and review performance data in detail. The information is present. What is missing is the structural ability to respond.
https://no-bullshit-agile.com/the-work-feedback-loop.html
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We are entering the “always-on personal agent” phase.
Tools like OpenClaw promise a local AI that lives your devices and in your tools.
Persistent. Routed. Autonomous. That sounds powerful. It should also make you uncomfortable.
I’m less worried about “AI taking over.” I’m worried about something more structural: Loss of observable feedback.
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Agility at scale is not about synchronizing frameworks.
It is about managing Nested Loops.
Large organizations don’t learn in a single cycle. They learn through multiple, interconnected feedback loops operating at different speeds and levels of abstraction.
If those loops are not physically coupled, you get what I call:
Disconnected Agility.
https://no-bullshit-agile.com/the-nested-loop.html
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Most organizations don’t lack feedback. They lack the ability to act on it.
In this video, I explain the Work–Feedback Loop — a simple lens to understand how work systems actually learn.
“We already have feedback.”
That’s often where learning stops.
Most orgs don’t lack feedback — they lack the ability to act on it. Surveys, metrics, incidents… and no change.
Feedback is only feedback if it changes the next piece of work. If change is slow, risky, or expensive, systems ignore signals.
Feedback problems are work problems.
Work–Feedback Loop:
Learning speed = response speed.
"Die Work–Feedback Loop – wie Arbeitssysteme wirklich lernen"
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We measure how fast we deliver. But we rarely measure how fast we correct. Many systems look fast on paper: short cycle times, frequent releases, busy pipelines.
And yet, the same problems persist for weeks or months. Why Because delivery speed only tells you how fast work moves forward. It tells you nothing about how fast feedback actually changes work.
This is the blind spot I call Feedback Response Time.
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Culture is often a side effect of system physics.
"Drama", "missing ownership", and "toxic meetings" are usually just symptoms of an open loop. When Work is decoupled from Reality for too long, people disengage. That's not a mindset problem—it's a design failure.
Stop trying to heal the people through "connection" workshops. Start closing the loops through architecture and safety.
A healthy system heals the culture. A broken system kills the spirit.
Stop chasing "Agility." Your business needs to deliver, and your system is failing you.
I recently spoke with a Team Lead—a pragmatist who hates "agile theatre." He told me: "I've started doing the Story QA myself again because the team keeps missing things."
Most organizations call this an "accountability issue." I call it a failure of System Physics.
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Again and again I see that it always comes down to the Work-Feedback Loop.
If you want to understand what works and what doesn't when improving your #agile way of working, focus on this loop.
Challenge me with a problem you have and I will guide you in a direction based on the Work-Feedback Loop!
Testing is work.
And it’s what makes feedback actionable instead of theoretical.
In the Work–Feedback Loop, testing clearly sits on the work side.
Tests make change safer.
They lower the cost of change.
They reduce fear and increase reversibility.
But at the same time, testing directly shapes the feedback side.
https://no-bullshit-agile.com/the-work-feedback-loop.html
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Learning doesn’t happen in meetings.
It happens where work meets feedback.
That’s my position.
Work systems don’t learn through understanding. They learn when work creates feedback — and that feedback changes the next decision.
Learning is not insight.
Learning is changed behavior caused by reality.
You can understand a problem perfectly and still not learn anything if nothing in the system actually changes.
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