agile Technical Debt Is a Chronic Condition, Not a Single Decision Technical debt isn't a one-time choice; it’s a *continual* trade-off between quality and speed. Recognizing this as a chronic condition, not an acute problem, changes how we approach it entirely.
agile The Manifesto We Forgot We Were Following The Agile Manifesto's authors wrote a weighting. Twenty-five years of practice turned it into an instead-of. Treating context-specific trade-offs as timeless principles is technical debt at the organizational level.
agile False Dichotomies Are the Enemy of Progress Stop falling for false choices like Agile vs. Waterfall! These "either/or" debates stifle progress and ignore the nuance of real-world projects.
agile P.O.S.T.: Four Dimensions of AI-Native Delivery P.O.S.T. reformulates the four Agile values as four measurable dimensions: Productivity, Outcomes, Satisfaction, and Time to Market. A diagnostic and a design tool.
agile The Three Eras of Agile: Constraint, Synergy, Intent Agile practices have moved through three eras defined by their binding constraint. Knowing which era your team is in tells you which practices fit.
agile The Agile Manifesto Was Written for a World Without AI The Manifesto's trade-offs answered a scarcity of human execution capacity. AI removes the scarcity. The intent survives; the formulation needs to change.
agile The P.O.S.T. AI World: Resetting the Agile Manifesto for the Age of Agents The Agile Manifesto's "over" was an admission of scarcity: teams could not afford both sides. As AI lifts the execution constraint, the word worth testing is "and."