Hello, I’m Kapil.

Making ambitious work simpler and more human.

I am a Tech Leader based in Germany, and my mission is to help organisations and people find their own answers and unleash their potential. Observance is where I share my thoughts, learnings, mistakes, and experiments. Essays is where I dive deeper into specific topics and ideas.

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Latest essayAugust 30, 2026

Delivery Pressure: Stop Burning Through It, Start Thinking Through It

Delivery pressure is not new to our industry, but sustained delivery pressure is. We are handling it poorly and it is having consequences, increased burnout, exploding tech debt and much more. Delivery pressure is not a problem that can be overcome with hard work alone; it is an analytical problem that requires strategy and meaningful change. In this post, I will cover some common anti-patterns I have seen and some hints on where to start looking, with deeper dives in following blog posts

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March 13, 2026

Experience Report: Switching from enterprise setup to startup

My newest adventure came with lots of changes: from working in an enterprise-y setup to joining a startup, from leading a globally distributed setup of almost 200 people to being one of the 4 devs, and from dabbling in AI-assisted tools and the agentic ecosystem to being at the bleeding edge of it. This blog post records my impressions from the first two weeks of this adventure.

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August 10, 2024

Why agile may not be working for your teams?

Despite sustained & substantial investments in agile transformation, many teams are struggling to transform. This is an opinion post pondering if scaling the supply of skilled agilist is the reason.

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July 21, 2024

Making Scope Negotiable

We are told to make our work visible & negotiate on scope. Many teams struggle with making their scope negotiable, either by showing too little, thus making negotiations hard. Or show too much, leading to meandering discussions. This post gives some practical tips

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July 20, 2024

Making Story Points Work

Story Points were invented to ease the pain of estimates, are they still being used as they were designed?

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January 18, 2023

Common mistakes people make while experimenting & how to avoid them

Healthy teams are rarely satisfied with status quo, they tinker & they improve. However, there are many ways it can go wrong!

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January 18, 2023

Innovate: But how to? (part 1)

Innovate or Die, that seems to be the mantra for running a successful business in today's world. But how do you do that?

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July 11, 2020

How CounterStrike helped me with teamwork in real life

I learnt a lot about team work, dynamics, personalities by playing CS:GO, a video game. These helped me immensely in my career, I am passing this knowledge along.

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