Not Just Data is an easy-to-read management novel that describes the story of a team building and then evolving a continuous enterprise data pipeline. What is a continuous enterprise data pipeline, you ask? Let’s work toward a definition: Continuous enterprise data is up-to-date enterprise data that is available on an as-needed, when-needed basis, reflecting the changing needs of data consumers.…
This is my review of Shane Gibson‘s book, An Agile Data Guide to Information Product Canvas, published in May 2025. In short, this book is a valuable addition to any data practitioner’s bookshelf because it provides easy-to-consume advice about a valuable data requirements technique. Interestingly, this book offers several interesting dichotomies: Due to its focus on an artifact (information product…
In the Autumn of 2024, I wrote a series of articles about the future of agile and the changes we were experiencing in the agile space. One article summarized my advice for how agilists can move forward in their careers given the ongoing downturn in agile, and one of my suggestions was that agile coaches should consider upping their game…
I need your help. There’s a small chance that you may have heard about me, but even so you’ll have long forgotten. I had my 15 minutes of fame seven years ago when I chose to sacrifice my husband to save five strangers. My name is Betty Angel. Back then the press dubbed me the “Angel of Mercy”, but since…
AI-Augmentation of Software Development: Use Cases This blog posting shares what I see as the common use cases for AI-augmentation of software development. Figure 1 overviews these use cases and Table 1 describes them. There are several key features of Figure 1: It’s a mapping, not a lifecycle. The diagram indicates the main categories of work in software development and…
A few days ago I was on a phone call with a young gentleman discussing where we felt the job market was going for project managers, and for managers in general. We spoke about how artificial intelligence (AI) was being applied to automate many aspects of the work that white-collar professionals perform. We shared our mutual belief that the ongoing…
For a long time now I’ve been telling people that large language models (LLMs) such as Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT hallucinate 100% of the time. Here is my brief explanation of this claim. An LLM is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) model that is trained via a deep learning strategy. LLMs predict, guess if you will, the next…
English is a wonderfully robust language, providing significant wiggle room for how terms are applied. This is particularly true of “data driven” and “data informed”, both of which have been thrown around a lot over the past few years. This leads to the questions: How are they different? and When should you apply each one? Here are my thoughts. Both…
The agile market has been in a downturn since mid-2023. Common questions that I get these days are “What has happened to Agile?”, “As an agile coach, what can I do to find work now?”, and “What is the future of agile?” To answer these questions I wrote a series of articles on LinkedIn in August and September of 2024. …
For over a decade I wrote a monthly column, the occasional feature article, and towards the end a blog for the now defunct print magazines Software Development and Dr. Dobbs Journal. In February 2011 I wrote an blog entitled Agile at 10: What We Believe, which described what happened at the workshop celebrating the 10th anniversary of the writing of…