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...
Here's a quick experiment. Ask your stakeholders, on a scale of one to ten, how valuable is your sprint review? I bet they'll say four. Now go ask your team...
A product team I worked with shipped something genuinely good last spring. They had built an AI assistant right into their support tool that drafted a first-pass reply to every...
A product leader sits in a sprint review on a Thursday afternoon. The demo is clean, the feature works, the team looks happy, and the AI-assisted code that built it...
Sit in on a requirements meeting sometime and watch for the moment it happens. You ask the person who knows the process best, the one who has done the job...
An AI agent writes a feature. It passes the automated test. The pull request gets approved in a one-minute review. And off it goes, deployed to production. A week later...
A Product Owner sits in her sprint planning meeting on a Wednesday morning. The new AI prioritization tool the team has been piloting tells her to push the data export...
A VP of Engineering sits in a leadership meeting on a Tuesday afternoon. The CTO has just finished walking through last quarter's incident report. Someone, maybe the head of risk...
Every Agile coach has a story like this one. I started working with a product organization about two months ago, and the first thing they told me — almost proudly...
A VP of Operations at a B2B software company called me a few weeks ago. Three months earlier, her team had rolled out an AI ticket summarizer for the support...
A product manager I coach pulled up her calendar last Friday and pointed at something she had circled in red. Eleven hours of refinement, estimation, and backlog grooming. Three hours...
A year ago, if somebody walked into your engineering organization and proposed that you should hire two product managers for every one engineer, you would have laughed them out of...