From Babysitting AI to Developing the Factory
Babysitting agents leaves little room for the troubleshooting that engineers enjoy. The harder challenge is developing a system that needs less babysitting.
Tag: product-operating-model
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From Vibe Coding to Developing the Company
Vibe coding can come full circle through a trusted engineering loop. Then the challenge expands: useful product outcomes, improving the factory, and helping the company work better.
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How to Leverage Flow Metrics To Accelerate Your Agentic Development Lifecycle
AI agents make it remarkably easy to start and generate work. Here is how I would use WIP, work item age, cycle time, and throughput when code review and customer learning cannot keep up.
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Your Kanban Board Ends Too Early
Does your board stop at deliverable and output, or does it go towards outcome: the changed behavior for somebody? Most boards stop at deployed, and that is what teaches people deployment is success.
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· ProductStop Demoing Your AI Rollout. Find the Unavoidable Project.
A mandated AI tool gets token adoption: people use it, do a demo, and go through the motions. Treat the change as a product, find the people with an unavoidable project, and check activation and churn before you roll it out to everybody.
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Scaling Product Orgs with Portfolio Agility
A minibook on portfolio agility: helping multi-product organizations see work clearly, improve flow, and steer investments with evidence instead of reported progress.