Did You Know? I recently discovered this article from SafeDelusion. It does a great job at highlighting the challenges of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), suggesting that while it promises...
A product team I once coached disliked the “no changes during the sprint” rule. It was hard to disagree as there seems to be an agile principle (#2 welcome late...
The experiment seemed like a sure thing. The product team had been exploring ways to speed up definition-of-done checks, so they trained an AI to generate acceptance criteria for new...
The leadership team was buzzing. The new AI-powered dashboard had just shown a sharp spike in the velocity forecast, and everyone took it as a sign that productivity had jumped...
Midway through a sprint, a Kanban team’s AI analytics dashboard flashed an alert: “High probability of downstream delay in QA within 3 days.” The forecast wasn’t based on guesswork; it...
A lot of people ask, what does a Scrum master do every day? Now we can elevate this and say, scrum master, agile coach, whatever the term is that you...
It was Sprint Planning, and the team’s AI-powered estimation tool had just suggested that a feature would take “3 story points” to complete. One of the senior developers noticed a...
It started as a small experiment. A Scrum team decided to trial an AI work-item recommender to speed up backlog refinement. Within a few sprints, something subtle but significant began...
You instrumented five usage signals on Monday, translated them into hypotheses on Tuesday, sliced a thin story with telemetry on Wednesday, and ranked the work with evidence on Thursday. Today...
You now have a handful of thin, telemetry-ready stories born from real usage signals. The next question is “Which ones cut the coming Sprint?” Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) started...
The Universal Challenge of Product Development Have you ever wondered why product development activities don't seem to go as planned just about every time? I'm not a big fan...
Yesterday, we mapped usage signals to clear hypotheses and product goals. Today, we try to put that insight into the Sprint backlog without over-engineering. The aim is a thin...