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Spencer Varadi
Product delivery leader. I/O psychologist.
AI-enabled product delivery runs on the science of team performance: how people decide, commit, and ship. This site is that research made practical.
What is I/O psychology
The research behind the rituals.
Industrial/Organizational Psychology is the scientific study of how people perform at work. Your standups, retros, sprint goals, and roadmaps are all attempts to coordinate human behavior. I/O psychology studies the mechanisms that make those attempts succeed or fail.
About Spencer
About Spencer
This site is built on Industrial/Organizational Psychology: the scientific study of how people behave at work. Not the motivational-poster version. The research version. Goal-setting theory, team dynamics, cognitive biases, incentive design, leadership models. The stuff that predicts whether a team ships or stalls.
Product delivery spends heavily on tools and rituals while ignoring the variable that explains most of the variance: how people actually make decisions together. The posts here are about delivery systems that account for the humans in the loop.
No framework for sale. Just decades of organizational research applied to real teams, real constraints, real work. Every article connects a peer-reviewed finding to a pattern you have probably lived through.
Proof at scale
Where the research met the work.
Software services delivery
Agile transformation across a services org: delivery predictability up, cycle time and defect rates down. Measured outcomes and artifacts available on request.
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How to Protect Product IP in an Agentic Age
Protect product IP when using LLMs: redact, split, and route sensitive work to private or offline models, so cheap ideation never leaks the roadmap.
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How to Motivate an Underperforming Team
You usually don't. Motivation isn't measurable and it's rarely the real problem. The environment is. Gilbert's six-box model shows which boxes to fix before you blame anyone.
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What I/O Psychology Actually Is (And Why Your Sprint Depends On It)
Industrial/Organizational Psychology isn't HR fluff. It's a century of research on how teams perform, decide, and ship. Here's what it means for product delivery.
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