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A product director I know got a message from her VP recently. The board had just met; the CEO wanted the company "moving on agentic AI," and finance needed a...

A directive lands in your team's channel on a Tuesday morning, and some version of it has probably landed in yours. We are all in on AI, let's move...

Picture two rooms in the same company on the same morning. In the boardroom, the message is simple: we're all in on AI. Two floors down, in a daily standup...

I see this question in a leadership review sometimes comes across like a bad joke. "So what is our AI productivity number?" Every head turns toward whoever owns the dashboard...

The dashboard turned green about a month after your team switched on the AI coding tools, and everyone exhaled. Lines of code accepted climbed, suggestions used climbed, and story points...

Let me guess. Somebody in your org just signed off on an AI budget this quarter. And the justification was some kind of productivity chart — green line, big number...

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...