A collection of things that I've written about in April 2023:
When someone in a coaching role is bogged down by organizational processes, the options are to change your organization or change your organization.
A lengthy backlog isn't always a concern by itself.
Goals are a useful focusing tool. If all the players don't want to collaborate, those who do can still craft a goal and use it to guide their work, but it is important to get the right stakeholders involved in developing goals.
It is difficult for software development organizations to perform validation of the products they build.
Estimating and reestimating work often adds little value over flow metrics like cycle time and throughput.
Counting work items is often a valid technique for planning, with less overhead than estimating work items.