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…
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. …