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Agile Manifesto: The Reformation That Became the Church

TL, DR: The Reformation That Became the Church The Agile Manifesto followed Luther’s Reformation arc: radical simplicity hardened into scaling fram...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 2:00 pm

Agile Is Dead, Long Live Agility

TL; DR: Why the Brand Failed While the Ideas Won Your LinkedIn feed is full of it: Agile is dead. They’re right. And, at the same time, they’re ent...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 3:00 pm

From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations

TL; DR: Mechanical Ceremonies to Meaningful Events Your Agile events aren’t failing because people lack training. They’re failing because your orga...
Posted on 2 December 2025 | 2:00 pm

Why Agility Matters

TL; DR: Why Agility Matters What if your organization’s “Agility” dysfunction isn’t an implementation problem but a missing-conditions problem that...
Posted on 11 November 2025 | 4:00 pm

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

The role of a Scrum Master is to establish Scrum, and the Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Thus, it is quite temptin...
Posted on 7 November 2025 | 5:00 pm

Applying Domain-Driven Design With Enterprise Java: A Behavior-Driven Approach

When it comes to software development, one of the biggest mistakes is delivering precisely what the client wants. While this may sound cliché, the ...
Posted on 23 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

The Dangerous Middle: Agile Roles That AI Will Erode First

TL; DR: Dangerous Middle and the Future of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches  AI is changing product and tech work. Peter Yang, a renowned product le...
Posted on 21 October 2025 | 1:00 pm

The Agile AI Manifesto

TL;DR: The Agile Manifesto Predicted AI The Agile world is splitting into two camps: Those convinced AI will automate practitioners out of existenc...
Posted on 8 October 2025 | 11:00 am

Bounded Rationality: Why Time-Boxed Decisions Keep Agile Teams Moving

In Agile projects, decisions come fast and often: Which story should we pull next? Is this bug critical enough to stop the sprint? Do we ship t...
Posted on 1 October 2025 | 7:00 pm

Why One-Week Sprints Make Vibe Coding Work Better

One-week sprint cycles in Scrum can significantly improve project outcomes through vibe coding approaches. Research shows that Agile techniques inc...
Posted on 26 September 2025 | 4:00 pm

AI Transformation Déjà Vu

TL;DR: AI Transformation Failures Organizations seem to fail their AI transformation using the same patterns that killed their Agile transformation...
Posted on 26 September 2025 | 11:00 am

From Requirements to Results: Anchoring Agile With Traceability

Agile is one of the most widely adopted project management methodologies in the field of software development because it enables teams to deliver i...
Posted on 23 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

Anything Rigid Is Not Sustainable: Why Flexibility Beats Dogma in Agile and Project Management

Rigid structures are not sustainable. The same is true in project management and organizational agility: anything rigid is not sustainable — whethe...
Posted on 17 September 2025 | 4:00 pm

The AI FOMO Paradox

TL; DR: AI FOMO — A Paradox AI FOMO comes from seeing everyone’s polished AI achievements while you see all your own experiments, failures, and con...
Posted on 17 September 2025 | 11:00 am

Shifting Left in Software Testing: Integrating AI-Driven Early Defect Detection into Agile Development Workflows

Nobody likes bugs. Not the developers who accidentally write them, not the testers who hunt them down, and certainly not the users who stumble into...
Posted on 12 September 2025 | 7:00 pm

Beyond DORA: Building a Holistic Framework for Engineering Metrics

My journey in the technical field has taken me from hands-on software engineering to the CTO’s role. In my monthly and quarterly routines at my cur...
Posted on 10 September 2025 | 5:00 pm

The Value Gap After Go-Live: The Agile Advantage in Tech Transformation

Robust change management practice is pivotal for the success and survival of enterprises in the ever-changing technology landscape and technology-d...
Posted on 8 September 2025 | 7:00 pm

Meta Prompting for Agile Practitioners

TL; DR: Meta Prompting We’ve all been there: You’re preparing for the next Retrospective, and you turn to ChatGPT for help. “Give me some Retrospec...
Posted on 5 September 2025 | 6:00 pm

Measuring What Matters: A Strategic Lens on Transformation Metrics

"Only 16% of digital transformations improve performance and sustain gains in the long term." — McKinsey, 2021 Transformation efforts often falter ...
Posted on 5 September 2025 | 4:00 pm

How to Use AI to Enhance Scrum Ceremonies

Among the Agile methodologies, Scrum is the main tool for software development that advances openness, adaptability, and ongoing learning. Scrum ce...
Posted on 4 September 2025 | 7:00 pm