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At Team '26, Atlassian shipped two tools that the agile community is not talking about. The Teamwork Graph CLI gives you 300 commands to manage Jira from your terminal. The MCP Server lets AI agents read and write to your Jira instance without a human in the loop. One removes the UI from your workf…

The Scrum Master and Product Owner weren't two separate stories. They were the first two chapters of the same story — and it's bigger than either role. In this episode, I walk through the role-by-role squeeze hitting Business Analysts, Project Managers, RTEs, and mid-level software engineers. Then …

The Scrum Master is not the only role losing ground. In Part 2 of Scrum Devolution, I go after the Product Owner role. The squeeze is coming from both ends: leadership is taking product strategy back directly, and AI is eating the execution layer. Strategy goes up. Execution goes down. The middle c…

There's a pattern repeating across large enterprises right now, and it's being called "agile maturity." A Scrum Master gets asked to run more teams. The coaching budget disappears. The role gets merged, or streamlined, or quietly stops appearing on the org chart. Leadership calls it progress. Teams…

Note: This is the audio companion to a full screenshare walkthrough video. For the best experience, watch the video on YouTube. A dedicated Claude Design deep-dive episode is coming soon. Claude Design just mass-launched and I used it to build a full website in under 25 minutes. No Figma. No desig…

Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha published "From Hierarchy to Intelligence" — an essay describing a future where AI replaces the context-carrying function of management. Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, laid off 40% of its workforce and restructured around three roles: individual contribu…

Every Monday morning, someone opens the Jira board and says "we're on track." Every other Friday, that same team misses the sprint commitment. The board is lying to you. And it's lying because the board only shows what people remembered to update. In this episode, I break down the difference betw…

I spent two weeks building the infrastructure — websites, podcast hosting, email funnels, LinkedIn strategy. All the systems. All the tools. And then I had to actually sit down and hit record. That was the hard part. Not the technology. Not the strategy. The vulnerability of putting my face and v…

Most people use AI like a secretary. Write me a retro summary. Draft this email. Summarize these notes. You save fifteen minutes and produce something any intern could have written. Thinking partner mode is fundamentally different. You bring real context — your sprint data, your blocker logs, your…