TL; DR: The AI Parrot in the Room Your LLM tool doesn’t think. It’s a statistical AI parrot: sophisticated and trained on millions of conversations—but still a parrot. Teams that fail with AI either don’t understand this or act as if it doesn’t matter. Both mistakes are costly. The uncomfortable truth in Agile product development... Read more » The post The Statistical AI Parrot in Your Sprint: Why AI Won’t Replace Your Agile Team (and Why Ignoring It Is a Mistake) appeared first...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Personal AI Productivity — Food for Agile Thought #506 Welcome to the 506th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,541 peers. This week, Jenny Wanger explores how cognitive biases like loss aversion and the planning fallacy can derail personal AI productivity, while John Cutler dissects poor strategy execution into... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #506: Personal AI Productivity, Strategy Problem Diagnosis, Fooled by A/B Tests, Narcissistic Le...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: AI Micromanagement Has Its Merits The Benefits of AI Micromanagement show up when you feed ChatGPT 5 progressively more context about your actual situation. I tested five prompts for a Retrospective design: from zero context to full team background with extended reasoning time. Case 1 produced generic “Scrum Oscars” nonsense. Case 5 delivered... Read more » The post The Benefits of AI Micromanagement appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #505: GPT-5, Building Product Sense, The ‘Just Ship It’ Issue, Future of Scrum Teams — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Thinking About Use Cases I tried ChatGPT’s new Agent Mode: Is it really a new Agile AI Agent that autonomously identifies noteworthy signals in the daily communication and data noise? Or is it a glorified automated prompt execution device? Let’s find out. (Note: I only have a Plus account, which limits the experience.)... Read more » The post Agile AI Agents appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: AI Bubble Guide — Food for Agile Thought #504 Welcome to the 504th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,578 peers. This week, Brian Balfour explores how AI is transforming product management by expanding both problem and solution spaces, accelerating decision-making, and introducing new strategic tensions. David Pereira outlines... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #504: AI Bubble Guide, Product Manager Career in 2025, Consulting w/o Managers, ...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Choose to Become an AI Leader with the AI 4 Agile BootCamp Your stakeholders already expect AI-enhanced value delivery. While you’re experimenting with prompts, competitors are 10x-ing their customer insights, pattern recognition, product decisions, and delivery speed. AI isn’t another skill to learn; it is THE survival skill for knowledge workers. The following... Read more » The post The AI 4 Agile BootCamp Online Course: September 15, 2025 appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Navigating AI Tools — Food for Agile Thought #503 Welcome to the 503rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,612 peers. This week, Korny Sietsma dissects the polarized hype around AI coding tools, urging a hands-on, context-aware approach to their use. Afonso Franco critiques the overthinking of product work,... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #503: Navigating AI Tools, Oversimplifying Product Work, Leading with Clarity, Goals Take Practice ap...| Age-of-Product.com
Jim Highsmith Q&A, Lean Tech Manifesto, Agility through Lean Craftsmanship — Hands-on Agile 2025 — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Tools and insights for agile software development, product management, and lean practices to help you invent for your customers.| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Cultural AI Adoption — Food for Agile Thought #502 Welcome to the 502nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,607 peers. This week, we learn how Shopify scaled reflexive AI from memo to a movement of cultural AI adoption by empowering teams and centralizing tooling. Andrew Bosworth reframes innovation... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #502: Cultural AI Adoption, Discovery not Creation, Product Model Pilot Teams, Self-Organization as a Concept...| Age-of-Product.com
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Food for Agile Thought #501: Damage by Passive AI Use, Resistance to Product Models, Product Engineers, JTBD Interview—Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #500: 5C Strategy Framework, Product Enshittification, Fail Fast Culture Failure, How to Unlearn — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
The Agile Paradox: Why Tactical Adoption Rarely Leads to True Transformation — the Core of Agile’s Failure — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #499: Product Disruption and Denial, Quick AI Guide, Dual Track in Action, 100-Year Leadership – Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #498: AI Risks by Non-Doomers, 20y Hiring Product Managers, Vibe Design, Micromanagement Is Okay - Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Instilling Agility, Common Strategy Mistakes, Disempowered Teams — Hands-on Agile 2025 — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Agile Failure at Corporate Level Is A Quarter-Century Crisis: Why We’re Still Failing 25 Years After the Manifesto — Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Product Discovery Mistakes, Agile Leadership, Taylorism to Product Mindset: David Pereira, Cliff Berg, Jon Odo speaking at Hands-on Agile 2025| Age-of-Product.com
Breaking the Feature Factory: The Optimus Alpha Approach to Data-Informed Retrospective Design — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Change Questions, The Agile Way, Humans Robots Agents: Dr. Lynn Kelley, Peter Merel, and Jurgen Appelo speaking at Hands-on Agile 2025.| Age-of-Product.com
Vibe Coding: Learn how it can enhance agile practices and empower non-technical entrepreneurs, but beware of its issues — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #475: Natural Agility, Fake Product Transformations, AI Product Management, Fail a Lot! — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Learn about conditions under which pure Scrum thrives and the organizational DNA required to support it — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Download the free Agile Metrics Survey 2021 and learn about what metrics organizations use in different stages of agility—Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Download the free Agile Metrics Survey 2021 and learn about what metrics organizations use in different stages of agility—Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Good agile metrics reflect either a team’s or your organization’s progress in becoming agile: The good, the bad, and the ugly agile metrics.| Age-of-Product.com
Agile Teams as Investors: A Deeper Dive into Maximizing Organizational Value by Trusting Your Teams — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course — Release Date: January 27, 2025 — by Stefan Wolpers — Berlin-Product-People.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #430: Bureaucracy & Agile, Product Strategy that Sucks, Bridging Silos, Product Theater II – Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
The Scrum Guide Reordered is based on 95 percent of the 2020 Scrum Guide, enhancing its original structure by adding an extended categorization.| Age-of-Product.com
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Download the free Scrum Master Salary Report 2022 based on 1,113 answers from Scrum Masters and agile coaches globally — how do you compare?| Age-of-Product.com
Peer recruiting: How to hire a Scrum Master suggests a hiring process for agile practitioners that delegate the decision to the Scrum Team| Age-of-Product.com
The Scrum Master Salary Report is the most comprehensive report on Scrum Master remuneration based on 1,000-plus replies — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com