OK, I’m still on my metaphor kick– Back in 2016, I wrote a whole piece here on the orchard and the orchardist, and a couple of years ago, I spun up the concept of Agilists as gardeners–especially gardeners of an Agile culture– as a way of introducing myself to the teams in an organization in […]
If AI is writing the majority of the code. . . .
I was recently asked the following question: “If AI is writing the majority of the code, how much of the agile process goes away? What parts need to change? For example, we won’t need story point sizing anymore.” It took me aback a little, not because I hadn’t been thinking about it, but because it […]
AI Magnifies What’s Beneath It
Protecting the foundations of delivery in an AI-accelerated world. I’ve spent a lot of years inside Agile systems, long enough to see small teams do remarkable things when the fundamentals were protected. Long enough to see those same fundamentals slowly whither as organizations grew and pressure increased. In all of those instances, the frameworks didn’t […]