Agile and Scrum
If You Can Write Acceptance Criteria, You Can Write an AI Routing Policy
TL;DR: The AI Routing Policy You moved your routine AI work to a cheaper model, so you think the cost…
If You Can Facilitate a Retrospective, You Can Audit Your AI
TL;DR: The AI Delegation Audit Scrum teams inspect how the last Sprint went during the Retrospective. They are much less…
The AI Definition of Done: Human in the Loop Is Not a Quality Standard
TL;DR: The AI Definition of Done Your team has a Definition of Done for a product increment. It has none…
The AI Delegation Lifecycle: Your Team Has AI Outputs. Where Are the Decisions?
TL; DR: The AI Delegation Lifecycle Your team ships AI outputs that nobody fully trusts; you needed to be quick,…
“Write As Little Code As Possible” Was Always the Point. AI Just Made It Urgent.
TL;DR: Write As Little Code As Possible and Agentic Coding Agentic coding tools have collapsed the friction of producing plausible…
Dear Micromanager: Your Distrust Has a Job; It’s Just Not the One You’re Doing
TL;DR: Why A Former Micromanager Will Make AI Adoption Work Twenty years of agile coaching failed to fix the micromanager…
Working with Cowork: Claude Desktop Is Three Apps Pretending to Be One
TL;DR: Understand the Claude Desktop Architecture and Save Time You configured Claude in Claude Desktop, wrote instructions, uploaded reference files,…
The AI Spending Trap: Why Adoption Outpaces Outcomes
TL;DR: AI Adoption Issues Sound Familiar to Agile Practitioners If you have spent the last twenty years arguing that velocity…
The Scrum-to-POM Transition Is a Role Repositioning Event
TL; DR: Scrum-to-POM Is Not About Frameworks Two weeks ago, I asked my audience whether they wanted a short course…
No More Cheap Claude: Four First Principles of Token Economics in 2026
TL;DR: Token Economics in the Era of Scarcity Your Claude Pro subscription hits limits faster than it did in January,…