Written by Mary Kay Krouze
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You Know the Feature, Now Write the Stories: Part Two of The Art of the User Story
Part two of The Art of the User Story. You know the feature — now write the stories. Set AI up as a conversation, answer with discipline, and walk out of a stuck moment with well-formed stories and a clearer picture of where the feature goes next.
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The Art of the User Story (and Where AI Fits In)
A worked example of using AI to review a user story: sharper wording, draft acceptance criteria, and new stories, plus the edits only a product owner can make.
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I Hadn't Found the Value of AI. Then I Handed It the Right Problem.
Most of us are using AI by now — but have you actually found the high-level value we were all promised? I hadn't. Then I handed it a real problem: synthesizing days of complex system evaluation sessions into a gap analysis leadership needed yesterday. What I learned surprised me.
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The Adaptive Team: When Leaders Trust Us to Do the Right Thing
Trust from leaders isn't a gift; teams sustain it through short experimentation cycles, evidence-based communication, and acting without asking permission.
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When Good Ideas Go Hollow: How Buzzwords Kill the Things We Care About
Buzzword Bingo is not a game you want your passion to end up in. When people roll their eyes or call out “buzzword” at the very thing you believe can fundamentally change how teams work and what it means to be a successful organization, something has gone wrong.
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Evolving Agile for the Future: Keeping pace when everything changes
Agile was designed to evolve, and it must keep evolving too. How AI can sharpen stand-ups, estimation, and retros, and why teams need autonomy to pivot fast.
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No Heroics: How do we know Agile is working?
By looking at sustainable development . What do I mean by that? It’s the pace of work a team can maintain—not just for a sprint or two, but for months and years—without burning out, without late nights, without the constant cycle of “just one more push.”
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From Office Heroics to Healthy Workplaces: Rethinking Recognition
Celebrating office heroes who save the day breeds burnout and crisis. Recognize the people who plan ahead and ask for help, and you reshape the culture.
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Agile Is a Mindset
Running stand-ups and sprints is doing Agile; it doesn't guarantee agility. Being Agile is an executive mindset: trust, psychological safety, empowered teams.
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Is Agile Dying?
Agile’s been around for about 25 years now—officially kicking off in 2001 with the Agile Manifesto. Since then, it’s evolved into all sorts of frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and others. We've seen some teams knock it out of the park, and others... not so much. So the big question is: is Agile on its way out?