How to maintain quality and velocity when AI assistants become part of your development workflow
Why development fundamentals become critical when AI assistants join your workflow – and how to avoid common integration pitfalls.
Why Perception of Productivity Matters as Much as Actual Productivity
Technical improvements fail when teams don’t perceive productivity gains. Great teams align actual productivity with perception of productivity through disciplined practices.
What 160 Minutes of AI Debugging Taught Me About AI-Coding tools
Este articlulo es una mirada al aprendizaje de trabajar un mes codificando con AI.
The Bias Problem: Why We Can't Trust AI Productivity Claims
When observing AI productivity claims, we need to be able to judge the objectivity and skin in the game of our sources.
Scheduling Theory To the rescue: How CTOs Build Predictably High-Performing Teams
Integrating Shortest Processing Time, Priority Inheritance, and Unplanned Work Management creates systematic high-performance development teams that deliver predictably.
The Unplanned Work Epidemic: Why Your Best Teams Can't Deliver Predictably
Unplanned work consumes 30-50% of development capacity. Separate capacity allocation and systematic management restore predictable sprint delivery.
Priority Inversion: The Silent Killer of High-Performing Development Teams
Priority Inversion silently kills team productivity when low-priority tasks block high-value features. Priority Inheritance protocols restore systematic value delivery.
When Your Sprint Falls Behind: The Shortest Processing Time Strategy That Agile Teams Wish They'd Known Earlier
Manufacturing’s Shortest Processing Time strategy adapted for failing sprints: prioritise quick wins within your sprint’s qualitative goal framework.
The ROI of Better Software Productivity Measurement (Real Numbers From Real Companies)
When you measure the right things, you unlock incredible potential. Let me share some real numbers from companies I’ve coached, demonstrating the tangible return on investment from a smarter approach to software productivity measurement:
Your Retrospectives Aren't Working Because You're Measuring the Wrong Things
“Same issues, different sprint.” Does that resonate with your team? Your retrospectives dutifully identify problems, action items are meticulously recorded, and then… nothing fundamentally changes. The real issue often isn’…