Modern product teams are under pressure to move fast, stay aligned, and deliver value, all while navigating constant change. The Agile movement, once a response to rigid bureaucracy, has too often become its own set of rituals and checklists, disconnected from the messy, creative reality of building great products.
We sit in planning meetings trying to guess timelines we can’t predict. We ship features that don’t solve real problems. We confuse speed with progress. Teams burn out delivering work they don’t believe in or can’t explain.
Orbit emerged not as a replacement for the Agile movement, but as a response to its stagnation. It’s an attempt to re-center our work around what matters most: shared understanding, thoughtful alignment, and purposeful delivery. Orbit is not a magic process. It’s not a playbook you follow blindly. It’s a set of principles and practices designed to help teams focus, adapt, and work together with clarity, especially when the path ahead is uncertain.
This document doesn’t promise silver bullets. It offers questions, patterns, and tools to help you and your team think more clearly about the work you’re doing, and why you’re doing it. Orbit is here to support honest conversations, not suppress them. To embrace complexity, not ignore it. To turn reflection into routine and learning into leverage.
The chapters ahead introduce Orbit’s structure, vocabulary, and practices. But more importantly, they invite you to reconsider how you define progress, and what kind of team you want to be in while pursuing it.
If you’ve ever felt like your team is going through the motions, building fast but not wisely, or stuck between process and purpose, this is for you.
MASOUD BAHRAMI
