Category: Agile
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The Measurement Problem: When Your Metrics Reward the Wrong Behavior
Last year, I sat in a quarterly business review where an engineering director presented what he called “the best quarter in the team’s history.” Velocity was up 42%. Pull requests per developer had nearly doubled. Sprint burndowns were textbook smooth. The slides were polished, the trend lines all pointed up, and the room was nodding…
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Reimagine, Don’t Retrofit: Why AI Needs a New Development Lifecycle
A few months ago, I sat in on a retrospective with a development team at a mid-sized financial services company. They had adopted AI coding assistants six months earlier. The mood was… complicated. On one hand, individual developers were writing code faster than ever. On the other, the team’s sprint velocity metric had become meaningless.…
