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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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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
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AI as Your Judgment‑Free Sounding Board: A Life Lesson from Submarines, Special Operations, and Product Development
Stop the AI Slop Generating AI slop is easy; I know because I’ve done it by mistake more than once. What’s harder—and far more valuable—is using generative AI as a genuine thinking partner, a sounding board that helps you navigate frustration, find clarity, and move toward better decisions in a fast‑changing world. For well over
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GenAI Slowdown: Perfect Timing for Product Pros to Refocus and Innovate
Many things change quickly in technology. One day, your product leads the market. Then the next day, you are playing catch up. This has been the case with generative artificial intelligence. For a time, it felt like a new model, capability, framework, or some such dropped 3 out of 5 days per week. Now, we
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LinkedIn Posts on Product Development
Last updated 9/1/2024 What do you think about this quote? “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy In product development, we’re focused on building solutions to problems. People solve problems for people. The effort and energy involved in solution development is HUGE! Complex problems are