Category: Teamwork
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The Agile Manifesto in the Age of Gen AI
Is the Agile Manifesto Ready for an Upgrade? It has been quite a break. Regularly posting on LinkedIn provided me an opportunity to find a theme that would resonate in the rapidly changing world of product development. While my efforts to archive those posts were lackluster, a calculated choice I own, I now have a…
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In the Wrong Room for the Right Reason: Blue‑Collar Grit in White‑Collar Work
There are moments when I know I’m in the wrong room for the right reason. Last week held one of those moments. Being able to reflect on participating in a 2-day complexity masterclass confirmed for me the need to have “blue-collar sensibility in white-collar dialogue”. Allow me to set the stage. For a few months,…
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Hackathon Joy: How Preparation, Whiteboards, and the Right People Changed Everything
Nearly a week past the CodeLaunch U.S. hackathon, and I am still amazed at what we accomplished as a team. It proved to me that with the right people on a team, anything is possible. I write this because we were done with the “build, polish, and shine” nearly 3 hours before the end of…
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Special Operators in Street Clothes: Captaining the DUnderdogs at CodeLaunch
I’m doing this scared. This is hackathon weekend, and I’m doing something I would never have imagined I would be doing 5, 10, or even 25 years ago. I’m the captain of DUnderdogs, with the Professional Coding League (PCL), as part of CodeLaunch‘s U.S. competition. This particular post will be somewhat misplaced, a bit out-of-synch.…
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From Carnival Cruise Lines to The Great Inversion: Choosing Respect Over Being Liked
Just before graduating from college, I was invited to interview in Miami, Florida, for a position with Carnival Cruise Line. On my prioritized company list, Carnival did not even break the Top 10, let alone the Top 25. In fact, Carnival was not even on my “coolest companies to work for after college graduation” list.…
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OpenClaw, BMAD, and Me: Leaning Into the New Tools of the Builder Future
Fascinated and fearful. These are the two feelings I get the further on my gen AI journey I go. Spending most of my free time building, experimenting, learning, and getting better is daunting. In my heart, I know it is worth the investment. Enter OpenClaw. You might have read about it in business news articles.…
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From Point Solutions to Personal Growth: How Gen AI Taught Me to Code
Since November 2025, I have leaned into the idea that I could create software solutions. Nothing fancy, definitely not “enterprise grade”. Point solutions. Limited function, designed to solve one or two problems. Mostly, though, for me. Making the solution commercially viable hasn’t been a goal. You might be wondering, “Why Tim? Why wouldn’t you create…
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Happy Pie Day! The Great Inversion Launch
The AI-Fluent Product Team Member Playbook is Live Pie Day Edition – March 14, 2026 (π ≈ 3.14159) Hey, it’s Tim Dickey. Navy Chief turned product coach, documenting the Great Inversion in real time. A few months ago, a connection asked me point-blank, “How do I stay relevant as AI starts eating the artifact layer…
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Breaking Agile: How Agentic AI Is Rewriting the Manifesto and Scrum
You might feel it already.Standups feel more like status theater than collaboration. Backlogs seem to grow and shrink without anyone really understanding why. AI tools are creeping into planning, refinement, and development, but no one can explain what that means for a Scrum Master or Agile coach. If you’re in one of these roles, you…
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The Great Inversion: Why Your ‘Senior’ Product Skills Are Becoming Background Noise (and What to Do About It)
If you are a Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Business Analyst, you have likely felt that cold prickle of anxiety: the “Am I already behind?” moment. It usually happens when you see an autonomous agent do in seconds what used to take you a week of synthesis, or when a leader declares that AI is…