Using AI at Work Does Not Mean You Understand It Many agile practitioners use ChatGPT at work. That does not mean they understand AI well enough to trust your own judgment. The problem is not that agile practitioners ignore AI.…
TL;DR: Jira to AI Agents Jira was named after Godzilla and built to track bugs. It became the default agile tool because it satisfied a deeply human desire: controlling work by putting it in boxes with statuses, assignees, and due…
TL; DR: Thinking Skills for Agile Practitioners Most agile practitioners use AI to produce outputs more quickly. Few use it to think better. This free download gives you three AI thinking skills (Socratic Explorer, Brutal Critic, Pre-Mortem) that turn Claude…
TL; DR: What to Do About It Your anxiety about AI is a signal, not a verdict. Here is why AI for Agile Practitioners matters and how: What transfers: Organizational change expertise, empirical process control, and cross-functional translation. The hard…
TL;DR: The LLM in Agile Most agile practitioners are still debating whether AI matters. I stopped debating and started using it. Over two-plus years, AI went from proofreading my book manuscript to designing Retrospectives based on team data, to running…
TL; DR: The Survival of Agile Practitioners It is February 2026, and your LinkedIn feed oscillates between two narratives: Narrative #1: AI will replace agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and everyone whose job description includes “facilitate” or…
TL;DR: The A3 Handoff Canvas The A3 Framework helps you decide whether AI should touch a task (Assist, Automate, Avoid). The A3 Handoff Canvas covers what teams often skip: how to run the handoff without losing quality or accountability. It…
TL;DR: The AI4Agile Practitioners Report 2026 83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Our survey of 289 Agile practitioners identifies the real…
TL;DR: AI Transformation Anti-Patterns AI initiatives fail for the same reasons Agile transformations did: The majority of failures result from people, culture, and processes, not technology. This article gives you a diagnostic checklist of 10 AI transformation anti-patterns to spot…
TL; DR: Agile’s AI-Driven Paradigm Shift The paradigm shift is here. Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, recently admitted he has never felt this far behind as a programmer. If Karpathy feels overwhelmed, how should the rest…
