Elevator pitches for Open Spaces topics at AONW. 4 corners of the gym, 2 spaces in each of 2 classrooms, the library, and "wherever".

For session notes, see LinkedIn under the hashtag #aonw2026 . (AONW org: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-open-northwest )

Topics for the sessions are moderately heavy on LLMs and agentic techniques.

i'm curious what agile means in a world of solo teaming. i'm doing product and engineering at my job, which would have been 6-8 people in the before times. the bottleneck isn't pre-ship planning, it's post-ship review. my sprint cycle is daily. there's no sense in the time overhead of ceremony.

@eighteyes "Theory of Constraints" is showing up for me as a place to refer processes. It specifically looks at constraints and how they suggest what to do when they change or are different from what were present when a process was described or designed.

@jmeowmeow well said. i agree. how do you find that delta? the map is not the territory.

@eighteyes I am not enough practiced in these perspectives to give examples, but I just heard the next chair over in the agile coaching session say that Gerald Weinberg's approach was to find the most troublesome point (constraint or blockage in a process) and investigate that.

@eighteyes "people getting stuck in processes" is another topic from the coaching circle

@jmeowmeow one of the great challenges of using AI on teams, is that everyone has a different mental model of software and how it's built. by systemizing a given set of mental augmentation tools, you're nerfing folks who don't think in that way. i don't have a solution for this, except to build 10x tools which makes all prior knowledge obsolete. :D

@eighteyes There's also the fear of a rug-pull from service suppliers, not unjustified to those who have been through a few boom and crashes.

@jmeowmeow do you mean the llm providers? yea, we are in the uber-growth, vc subsidized period, but we're already at the point where you can get adequate results for 80% of software dev needs from a $3k local hardware investment. that is the floor the frontier models will have to beat. and it's always rising. Uber had fixed costs in drivers / cars. Inference costs for value will go down over time. I'm not too worried about it, nothing I can do about it anyway. I'm done with coding by hand. Someone will offer heirloom-quality, hand-crafted software, but I've got too many things to build. lol.

@eighteyes I looked at your site and you look very busy. Even a piano tutor. It's been a while since I've dusted off my keyboard.