Thoughts on Agile, AI & Leadership

Is your team building "shrines" to their problems? Learn why analysis is often procrastination in a suit and how to use the "Line of Code Test" to force action and stop the delay.

I’m teaching "Predictable Delivery" soon, but my own Jira board is a disaster. Here’s why predictability is impossible in a system in flux—and why that’s okay.

How to stop renting your intelligence and start orchestrating a private knowledge layer

The traditional PDF resume is a static lie in a dynamic world. Stop waiting for the market to stabilize and start building your own career infrastructure — a living digital twin that works for you while you sleep.

AI is changing the physics of delivery. The Scrum Master is no longer just a meeting facilitator — you are now an organizational whistleblower protecting systemic integrity against the deceptive velocity of automated output.

Adding AI makes teams 17.7% slower when managed like a 'faster hammer.' Why your best engineers are drowning and how to pivot to an orchestrator mindset.

Rigid dashboards are a maintenance tax. Learn how to liberate your data from Jira using AI and MCP to start extracting actual insight.

AI isn't just a tool; it's a fundamental shift in how we approach agility. Learn why running retros that feel good but change nothing is now a critical risk.

Vibe coding feels like velocity, but it's often just expensive dopamine. Learn how to break the infinite AI iteration loop and start shipping real value.

I watched a staff engineer hijack a 15-minute daily sync for 14 minutes. I said nothing. That silence cost us our sprint goal — and it took years to learn that the polite Scrum Master is the rudest person in the room.

I built a comment sync between RT and Jira. Three unintended benefits showed up that nobody planned for.

I published about AI meeting notes and the Agile community came for me. Forgetting curves, weaponized psychological safety, and a dare.

I shared an AI meeting tool with 25 Scrum Masters. Three responded. One tried it. The data on practitioner resistance is worse than you think.

An Agile practitioner's honest reckoning with building AI tools that might make coaching humans unnecessary.

Scrum Masters who build don't need slide decks to prove their value.

When 'You are hallucinating that' became the final straw for commercial AI tools

I started 2026 by picking a fight.

The companies that built AI are literally selling you tools to write less. Here's why.

Stop polishing your PDF resume. Build a personal website with an AI agent that works for you 24/7 - for less than a penny per conversation.

What 4 weeks of writing taught me about building an audience from scratch

I'm not a developer. I built an app today.

Why your "AI productivity" is just new administrative toil—and how to actually fix it.

Why your keyboard is the bottleneck, and what to use instead

When the cost of building drops to near-zero, the calculus of 'Build vs. Buy' shifts dramatically.

In a market flooded with sterile profiles, the only way to stand out is to build something real - and it costs almost $0.

Your team isn't slow - they're distracted. Track focus with simple data, then use it to change the conversation.

Version control isn't just for developers anymore - it's how you stop repeating mistakes and start working smarter.

Turning 'spidey senses' into instruments that make the intangible tangible.

42% of AI initiatives abandoned in 2025. The missing ingredient isn't better algorithms.

The hardest part of running a great meeting isn't logistics - it's keeping your ego in check

Why I stopped being a Master of Scrum and started building tools that eliminate toil

Your 'temporary' solutions probably aren't temporary—and here's how to tell. Experiments are great, but without a clear exit strategy, they quickly become the new (and often broken) status quo.

Your retrospectives aren't broken. Your facilitation skills? Excellent. None of that matters if leadership is questioning whether your role should exist. The fix isn't better meetings—it's mapping your value to data.