TL;DR: AI Transformation Failures Organizations seem to fail their AI transformation using the same patterns that killed their Agile transformations: Performing demos instead of solving problems, buying tools before identifying needs, celebrating pilots that can’t scale, and measuring activity instead of outcomes. These aren’t technology failures; they are organizational patterns of performing change instead of... Read more » The post AI Transformation Déjà Vu: Why Today’s Failures L...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: AI Bubble — Food for Agile Thought #511 Welcome to the 511th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,483 peers. This week, Cedric Chin outlines the Vaughn Tan Rule: keep human judgment central while using AI for synthesis, retrieval, transformation, and speed across grading, feedback, research, coding, scheduling, and... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #511: AI Bubble, Perfect Product Roadmap, Inversion as Mental Model, Scaling Culture? appeared...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: The Agile Community Needs Your Reality Check on AI After analyzing dozens of “AI will transform agile” articles, I’ve found a troubling pattern: They’re written by AI enthusiasts who’ve never run a Sprint, not by practitioners dealing with the messy reality of AI integration. The result? A dangerous gap between AI hype and... Read more » The post Join the AI for Agile Practitioners Survey — Why We Need Your Insights appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #510: AI Riches, The Shipping Illusion, Middle-Aged PMs, Enterprise Change Pattern — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: AI FOMO — A Paradox AI FOMO comes from seeing everyone’s polished AI achievements while you see all your own experiments, failures, and confusion. The constant drumbeat of AI breakthroughs triggers legitimate anxiety for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Product Managers: “Am I falling behind? Will my role be diminished?” But here’s... Read more » The post The AI FOMO Paradox: Why Agile Practitioners Are Perfectly Positioned for the AI Era appeared firs...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Vibe Coding for PMs — Food for Agile Thought #509 Welcome to the 509th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,501 peers. This week, Aatir Abdul Rauf highlights the rise of vibe coding for PMs as a core skill, offering 23 tips from prototyping to tool chaining. Arbaz Surti... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #509: Vibe Coding for Product Managers, Mass Intelligence, Walk Away or Dance, Disruption by GPU appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
TL;DR: The Generative AI Precision Anti-Pattern Here’s another one for your collection: The Generative AI Precision Anti-Pattern, where organizations wield LLMs like precision instruments when they’re probabilistic tools by design. Sound familiar? It’s the same pattern we see when teams cargo-cult agile practices without understanding their purpose. LLMs excel at text summarization and pattern recognition... Read more » The post The Generative AI Precision Anti-Pattern: Stop Using LLMs...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: AI Employment Effects — Food for Agile Thought #508 Welcome to the 508th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,487 peers. This week, Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen highlight recent AI employment effects — a 13 percent decline in employment among early-career workers in AI-exposed roles, driven... Read more » The post Food for Agile Thought #508: AI Employment Effects, Product Leadership Archetypes, Team Alignment, Endless Complaining a...| Age-of-Product.com
TL; DR: Meta Prompting We’ve all been there: You’re preparing for the next Retrospective, and you turn to ChatGPT for help. “Give me some Retrospective ideas,” you type. What do you get back? Generic templates you’ve seen a hundred times before: Set the Stage, Gather Data, Generate Insights, Decide What to Do, and Close the... Read more » The post Meta Prompting: Making AI Your Conversation Partner appeared first on Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #507: First AI Product, POM Transformation Models, Talking $$ to Stakeholders, AI Winter? — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
The Statistical AI Parrot in Your Sprint: Why AI Won't Replace Your Agile Team. And Why Ignoring It Is a Mistake — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #506: Personal AI Productivity, Strategy Diagnosis, Fooled by A/B Tests, Narcissistic Leaders – 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
What are Agile AI Agent Use Cases? I tried ChatGPT’s new Agent Mode, and here is what I found — Age-of-Product.com.| Age-of-Product.com
Food for Agile Thought #504: AI Bubble Guide, Product Manager Career, Consulting w/o Managers, Don’t Follow Frameworks - Age-of-Product.com| 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
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
Food for Agile Thought #502: Cultural AI Adoption, Discovery not Creation, Product Model Pilot Teams, Self-Organization — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
The Advanced Product Backlog Management Course v2 with AI for Release on July 15, 2025, at $ 99 — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
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
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
Download the free Scrum Master Salary Report 2023 based on 1,143 answers from Scrum Masters and agile coaches globally — how do you compare?| 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