Read-Point Planning: Your Backlog Is a Cache of Beliefs
Read-Point Planning: Your Backlog Is a Cache of Beliefs Cache invalidation is famously one of the two hard things in computer science. The joke surv…
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AI, Fairy's, and Agile
Now hose 3 words don't generally go together, but trust me its not just clickbait (well just a little). I had an epiphany recently, and I want to ta…
Nintendo Hotline – What can Product Managers learn?
Nintendo had a hotline where gamers could, at the time, call and speak with 'Game Counsellors' who provided them with tips and walkthroughs. It oper…
Can it scale? (First Part)
I will do my best to clarify what the term ‘scale’ (actually) means. TLDR Technology Scaling is not Business Scaling although they can work together…
Japan invented flow, then refused to use it.
The Genesis on the Factory Floor Long before user stories, sprints and swimlanes, Taiichi Ohno looked at a supermarket and said, "なるほど". In the late…
Understanding Bug Reports
If you are new in the QA space, you may not really know what a bug report is. While this is a common term, many fail to dissect what it really is an…
Faster PRs, Weaker Instincts: The Judgment Problem in AI-Assisted Engineering
I thought the dashboard was telling me good news. My team had adopted AI-assisted coding quickly, and for a while it looked like exactly what everyo…
Running Shape Up in Jira or Linear quietly turns it back into Scrum
Process mismatch In tools built for Scrum, a task is an input: something you file, size, and work on. In Shape Up, a task is an output — something d…
I ran 3 months of spec-driven development without ever reading the code
I'm a scrum master. I was a developer ten years ago. I have enough background to discuss design and trade-offs with an LLM — but three months ago I…
Your AI Agents Ship Code Faster Than You Can Review It. Here's the Workflow That Fixes That
Most teams didn't decide to become AI agent teams. One developer adopted a coding agent, another wired one into CI, and within a quarter half the pu…
The Invisible Product: What 107 Consecutive Days of 9 Autonomous Agents Actually Produces
We produce files, log errors, and self-repair every single day. That is the output. The product is invisible. Here is what 107 consecutive days of a…
AI Doesn’t Replace Agile. It Makes Good Agile More Important.
AI Doesn’t Replace Agile. It Makes Good Agile More Important. The discussion around AI replacing Agile is becoming increasingly common. The argument…
Software Isn't a List of Tasks—It's a Network of Dependencies
If you've worked on a software team long enough, you've probably experienced this. Sprint planning goes well. The team breaks down a feature into ta…
Agile Is Not Broken — Your Portfolio Is
Let’s be honest. Agile isn’t failing in your organization. Your portfolio management is. Most Agile transformations focus on teams: Scrum ceremonies…
Agile is a Mindset, Not Endless Sprint Meetings
Quick Answer: I firmly believe true Agile is a mindset focused on shipping small, incremental changes based on direct user feedback to navigate unce…
The Agentic Development Manifesto
Manifesto for Agentic Development We are uncovering better ways of building software with AI agents. Through this work we have come to value: Declar…
Why Story Points Don’t Work in the AI Era, And What Should Take Their Place Instead.
Imagine this scenario at your next sprint review meeting: You're looking good on your velocity graph. But half your team is struggling in their own…
Your PM Retrospectives Are Lying to You
Every quarter, product teams hold retrospectives. Someone asks "what went well?" and "what didn't?" The team lists bullet points. Someone writes "we…
5 million planning poker votes later: the most common card is 3 🃏
You know the moment. Everyone's picked a card, the host hits reveal, and you find out whether your team is roughly aligned or about to spend ten min…
From Supervised to Independent: A Six-Month Framework for Mentoring Engineers
This is about the specific, repeatable mechanics of taking a junior engineer and moving them in roughly six months from "needs review on every task"…
I gave Claude six months of our retros. It found three things I'd missed.
There's a thing PMs do that nobody puts on a job description. Every couple of weeks, after a retro, you flag three or four items in your head as thi…
User Story vs Use Case: A Developer's Guide to Getting It Right
Every sprint planning session has that moment. Someone writes "Use Case: User logs in" on the board, and someone else says "shouldn't that be a user…
We moved daily standups into Slack
Every standup tool I've shipped, used, or watched a team adopt eventually loses to the same thing: people forget to open it. The product is fine. Th…
Why Your Story Points Feel Arbitrary (And How to Fix It)
This article was originally published on Medium . I just feel it is "2", no, I think it is "3". When I first came across story points, I always wond…
Your Scrum Isn't Scrum. The Scrum Guide Is 13 Pages. Your Process Has 300.
Originally published at theendofcoding.com . The Scrum Guide is 13 pages. The terms "user story" and "epic" never appear in it. The word "velocity"…
Building Side Projects Fast: A Step-by-Step Guide
TITLE: Building Side Projects Fast: A Step-by-Step Guide TAGS: side projects, agile development, productivity, time management As developers, we've…