<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Institutions on The Broomstick Brief</title><link>https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/tags/institutions/</link><description>Recent content in Institutions on The Broomstick Brief</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.147.3</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/tags/institutions/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What institutions do to successful ideas</title><link>https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/institutionalisation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/institutionalisation/</guid><description>Agile may not have failed. It may have succeeded, and then met the thing that happens to any successful idea once it spreads far enough that coordination matters more than invention. Agile is the evidence here, not the subject.</description></item><item><title>How a rebellion became a bureaucracy</title><link>https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/rebellion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/rebellion/</guid><description>If institutions reshape ideas, how does it happen in practice? Two mechanisms, ceremony becoming mandatory and metrics becoming targets, turn out to be one structural preference for the observable, with the artefacts surviving as evidence.</description></item></channel></rss>