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...
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...