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...
Open your calendar for next week and count the recurring meeting blocks. Then ask one honest question about each one: does this produce a decision, a learning, or a next...
A Scrum Master I coach blocks two hours every other Tuesday afternoon to prep for sprint review. She calls it her "translation time." The team just shipped a backend query...
A Scrum Master messaged me last month with a question that summarized the whole problem. "Our two main stakeholders stopped coming to sprint review three months ago. They told...