Sprint Planning is the canary in the coal mine. It reveals dysfunction building all Sprint long.
These problems are fixable. Start by inviting everyone to Refinement—offer popcorn if you have to. Treat the underlying issues, not the symptoms.
Full breakdown: https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/sprint-planning-from-hell/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=archive-reshare
A skills matrix is a self-reporting system where team members provide their own
estimate of their skill in a specific area. To create a skills matrix, get the
team to set aside a couple of hours and run a workshop. You can follow the
step-by-step in my article "How to Build a Powerful Team from Scratch" here 👉🏻
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A skills matrix is a self-reporting system where team members provide their own estimate of their skill in a specific area. To create a skills matrix, get the team to set aside a couple of hours and run a workshop. You can follow the step-by-step in my article "How to Build a Powerful Team from Scratch" here 👉🏻 https://buff.ly/ygpkCli
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What are your biggest Challenges with Leadership?
In the Product Ownership Category, what hurts most?
I'm looking to see what pain(s) resonate most for Scrum, Kanban, pick your flavour.
#EffectiveScrum Teams find where their real bottlenecks are and address those problems. (AI may not be included). Sign up for our newsletter to learn how to be more effective. (Sadly, I know that I'm as fit as I was playing rugby when I was in my 20s)
Since the bottleneck was never the rate at which we write code, generating code faster with AI is a waste.
I will say it out loud: LLM-generated code will be a leading source of quality problems in 2025. Today's duplicate code and additional complexity will be a source of problems in 2026 and beyond.
3/4 #EffectiveScrum
The data tells us that perception doesn't match reality. (Data source: GitClear AI Copilot Code Quality: 2025 Look Back at 12 Months of Data https://buff.ly/3QvIBPy
Here are the effects we can document about AI/LLMs
- Code Complexity is going up, not down
- Deployment Frequency has slowed, and Rollbacks have Increased
The Theory of Constraints says that any improvements that don't affect the key constraint are an illusion.
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I perceive that I am the fittest I've ever been. If the data doesn't back my perception, then it doesn't matter.
The DORA 2024 State of DevOps report (https://buff.ly/3Ab2YNe) has missed the boat. The report measured Developer's perceptions about AI: feel more productive and that they have reduced complexity. Measuring perception and not the code itself, leads to false conclusions.
The data shows that duplication is increasing and refactoring is decreasing.
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Mark Levison
