Product
From Product Manager to Product Builder: What AI Actually Changes
A year ago, a product manager spent Monday grooming the backlog. Today that same person can describe a feature out loud and have three working prototypes before lunch. So a...
Product
Will AI Replace Product Managers? The Part of the Job That Is Actually Disappearing
Picture a product manager getting ready for backlog refinement. A year ago that session meant estimating the backlog, clarifying details with the team, and breaking coarse-grained items down into something...
Product
Writing Requirements an AI Can Actually Build
For most of my career, a vague requirement was survivable. Not because we caught it. Because building was slow enough that somebody asked a question first.That question was free, it...
Agility
AI-Ready Acceptance Criteria: Why Vague Requirements Now Cost You More
Somebody on your team opens a ticket. Azure DevOps, Jira, whatever you use. It says: add a way for customers to export their data. Just one line. How hard could...
Leadership + Organization
Why AI Pilots Stall Between the Demo and Production
A pilot that stalls does not announce it. There is no meeting where somebody says this one is over. It keeps its login and its budget line, the follow-up meeting...
Leadership + Organization
Pilot Purgatory: Why Your AI Demo Never Shipped
A few months ago I was in a room with a leadership team watching an AI pilot demo. You've been there. I've watched this scene enough times to tell it...
Leadership + Organization
Too Many Dashboards, Not Enough Decisions
Your organization can see more of its delivery system than it ever could, and the people running that system say the work is getting harder rather than easier. Both of...
Leadership + Organization
More Dashboards, Worse Outcomes: The Visibility Paradox
Somewhere in your organization, a team added a batch of new dashboards this quarter. I'd bet on it. Delivery health, a few flow metrics for the coaches, an AI-generated rollup...
Agility
Verification Is the New Bottleneck: Size Your Team's Real Review Capacity
Your team shipped more last quarter than in any previous quarter, but delivery is slower than in the spring. We are pretty sure nobody stopped working. What we feel, though...
Responsible AI
Why AI Code Generation Moved Your Bottleneck to Code Review
Your team shipped more code last quarter than in any previous quarter. Pull requests are up. You look at the heat map of the repo and the changes look good...
Responsible AI
Choosing How Much AI Decides: A Risk-Based Ladder
Most delegation decisions make themselves. Nobody convenes a meeting about whether AI can format a commit message, and nobody needs a framework to know that unattended production deploys are a...
Responsible AI
The AI Delegation Ladder: Deciding What AI Is Allowed to Decide
I am pretty sure most of you have a list of things you let AI do, and a second list of things you would never let it near. I am...