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Avoiding AI Debt as a Team

TL; DR: Reusing Agile Artifacts to Avoid Accumulating AI Debt In this video from the 76th Hands-on Agile Meetup, I walk you through the A3 Delegati...
Posted on 23 October 2026 | 2:00 pm

The Jobs Matrix for AI: Four Boxes Instead of 40 Tools

TL;DR: A 2×2 Matrix on AI for Agile Practitioners You probably think making sense of AI means keeping up with every new tool, agent, and pricing ti...
Posted on 12 October 2026 | 6:00 pm

Agentic Test Creation: From Plain-Language Requirements to End-to-End Test Cases

Throughout my career, I've watched sprints stall in the same place. Everything was going fine: the features were merged, the requirements were clea...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 7:00 pm

AI on Top of a Dysfunctional System

TL;DR: Polished Artifacts, Unchanged Decisions, Or Ten Backlog Anti-Patterns AI Makes Worse Add AI to a Product Backlog process that already strugg...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

Can Your Team Name the Work It Already Runs With AI?

TL;DR: The AI Workflow Inventory Finalizes the A3 Delegation System You probably know your own AI shortcuts: the colleague who drafts the stakehold...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

AI Transformations and Agile Transformations Rhyme

TL;DR: A Déjà-Vu? AI adoption seems to be scaling: 37% of respondents in McKinsey’s 2026 survey report an EBIT effect from AI, and Gartner finds th...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 2:00 pm

The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions?

TL; DR: The AI Delegation Lifecycle Your team ships AI outputs that nobody fully trusts; you needed to be quick, and “dirty” tagged along. Too bad ...
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 12:00 pm

From Agile to the Product Operating Model

TL; DR: The “Agile to the Product Operating Model” Survey Results Between August 2 and August 10, 2026, 48 practitioners participated in my Agile t...
Posted on 17 August 2026 | 3:00 pm

Why Developers Must Be Part of the Customer Validation Process

Agile has made it faster to design, build, and ship features. Teams track sprints, display burndown charts to show progress, and conduct sprint ret...
Posted on 27 July 2026 | 7:00 pm

One Click From Requirements to Production: The Promise and the Reality

Every few months, a new demo circulates in engineering circles. A product manager types a requirement into a chat window. The AI reads the docs, sc...
Posted on 21 July 2026 | 2:00 pm

From Gherkin to Source Code Without Losing the Business Language

Picture this: you are a software developer building an education platform, and you receive from the product owner some requirements written in busi...
Posted on 14 July 2026 | 1:00 pm

Why Requirements Are Becoming the Control Layer in AI-Assisted Development

In traditional software delivery, requirements often functioned as an initial alignment artifact. Once development began, implementation, iteration...
Posted on 29 June 2026 | 3:00 pm

Before the AI Coding Agent Writes Code: Structuring Scattered Requirements With PARA

AI coding assistants are becoming increasingly capable at generating code, explaining systems, and accelerating development workflows. But in real ...
Posted on 29 June 2026 | 12:00 pm

What It Takes to Make Mainframe Modernization Work

Mainframe modernization is once again at the center of enterprise conversations. Not because something suddenly broke, but because the environment ...
Posted on 26 June 2026 | 1:00 pm

The AI Definition of Done

TL;DR: The AI Definition of Done Your team has a Definition of Done for a product increment. It has none for the 20-plus AI-supported outputs that ...
Posted on 25 June 2026 | 12:00 pm

Why Your Test Automation Is Always Behind the Code And the Architecture That Fixes It

There is a pattern that repeats itself across engineering organizations regardless of team size, tech stack, or industry. A sprint ends. Features a...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 12:00 pm

When One MVP Is Really Four Systems: A Better Way to Plan Multi-Role Apps

Teams often say they are building one app. A lot of the time, that is not true. I saw this while reviewing a telemedicine MVP. At first, the plan s...
Posted on 2 June 2026 | 1:00 pm

The Agentic Agile Office: Streamlining Enterprise Agile With Autonomous AI Agents

 In my 30 years of navigating the IT landscape, I’ve seen ‘Agile’ transform from a revolutionary mindset into what often feels like a series of man...
Posted on 1 June 2026 | 8:00 pm

Dear Micromanager: Your Distrust Has a Job; It’s Just Not the One You’re Doing

TL;DR: Why A Former Micromanager Will Make AI Adoption Work Twenty years of Agile coaching failed to fix the micromanager who meddles with every dr...
Posted on 21 May 2026 | 2:30 pm

Retesting Best Practices for Agile Teams: A Quick Guide to Bug Fix Verification

Agile teams ship fast. Two-week sprints, daily standups, and continuous deployment pipelines have made speed the default. But speed without verific...
Posted on 19 May 2026 | 8:00 pm