Pitenable May 2026

For two weeks, do not add headcount or tools. Instead, remove all noise from the pit's environment. Cancel their status meetings. Block their calendar for deep work.

At first glance, it looks like a typo. But for those in the trenches of product delivery, "pitenable" (pronounced pit-ee-nay-bul ) describes the critical ability to transform a constraint into a catalyst. The word is a portmanteau of PIT (Point of Inevitable Tension) and Enable . To be pitenable is to design systems, teams, or workflows so that the single most restrictive bottleneck—the "pit"—actively empowers the rest of the chain rather than strangling it. pitenable

So next time you find a bottleneck, don't break it. Pitenable it. Have you seen a pitenable system in the wild? Share your story using #pitenable. For two weeks, do not add headcount or tools

A pitenable approach asks a different question: What if the pit is actually the source of quality, governance, or expertise? Block their calendar for deep work

The pit pulls work only when ready. Everyone upstream waits, learns, and improves their own quality so the pit never sees garbage.