Tag: tech_fail
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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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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…
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LinkedIn Posts on Conscious Capitalism
Last updated on 8/3/2024 Yesterday’s conversation on conscious culture at The Meeting Place with the members of Conscious Capitalism Dallas was delightful. Rob’s team did an outstanding job preparing for our event, and our CCD team as well. I want to thank Kim Bentson and Christopher Carrion for the work behind the scenes to bring…
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LinkedIn posts on Work – #LifeatImproving
Last updated on 8/30/2024 I was pleasantly surprised this morning. When I arrived at the office, I found the HUGE “Thank You” card shown below. As part of our continued effort to demonstrate how Conscious Capitalism work, we host technology-centric meetups in our Dallas Improving office. During the evenings, our classrooms become meeting space for…