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Two weeks after the team switched on the AI coding assistant, the review comments per pull request roughly doubled, and the first reaction in the room was to blame the...

You rolled out the AI tools in the spring, the demo was great, and for two weeks it felt like the team had found another gear. Now it is six...

Six weeks ago I was working with a team that bought all the AI licenses at once. Sound familiar? Everybody was in the room for the demo, and it looked...

Your best senior engineer spent all of Tuesday reviewing AI-generated pull requests. Not writing anything, not designing anything, just reviewing. Two desks over sits a sharp junior who could carry...

You went to fill a senior role last month and found you could not fill it from inside. The people you would normally tap, the ones who can make the...

Just about every class I teach starts the same way. I'll ask the room what "agile" means. Someone says fast. Someone says adaptable. Someone says nimble. All correct, all synonyms...

I've got a good one for you. A VP of engineering told me last quarter, "AI is our junior team now." He said it with a smile. He meant it...

A new regulation drops on a Friday afternoon. Hundreds of pages, dense and cross-referenced, and somewhere in there is the answer to a question your business needs by Monday: what...

A Scrum Master I worked with at a health system kept hearing the same sentence in every planning meeting. We can't do that here, compliance won't let us. After...

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of standing in front of 300 employees at the Dallas County Tax Office. They'd set aside a day of enrichment for their...

A Scrum Master I coach blocks two hours every other Tuesday to prepare for sprint review. She calls it her translation time. Down the hall, her calendar holds six other...

A Scrum Master I worked with kept a beautiful calendar. Every event color-coded, every invite on time, the board green by Friday. When I asked which of those events...