Timo Toivonen·May 11The Future of Agile with AI — An UpdateOver a year ago I wrote about AI’s impact on agile product development. The Human-AI Bromance scenario I bet on is playing out but the…
Timo Toivonen·Mar 7I Asked an AI to Remake a C64 Classic. Here’s What Went Wrong.The Original Squish’em
Timo Toivonen·Mar 3AI Skills Matrix for Agile TeamsSuccessful interactions with AI step through four aspects. Each aspect adds structure and reduces ambiguity. The idea for the hiearchy is…
Timo Toivonen·Mar 2Four Lenses of AI Code ReviewsA code review is a checkpoint before software meets reality. Now AI is writing the code, more code is arriving faster, and reviews are the…
Timo Toivonen·Feb 25Cowen’s Guillotine — Is the U.S. economy leading us to the gallows?I’m a fan of Ben Cowen’s work mapping out the macro landscape. He recently shared a new way to predict recessions. I’m calling that method…
Timo Toivonen·Feb 23The Agentic Web Is Almost Ready. Almost.Three agentic milestones landed recently. One remains unsolved. Here’s what you need to know.
Timo Toivonen·Feb 21No, Scrum Isn’t Wasting Your MoneyI’m seeing posts that dismiss #Scrum because “it wastes money on standups & rituals instead of being productive”. Generally the argument is…
Timo Toivonen·Feb 20Economy Class AI Code: Comfortable Now, Turbulent Later?The software industry is heading towards one of three futures: AI Takeover, Human-AI Bromance, or Bubble Bursts. In every scenario, the…
Timo Toivonen·Feb 17Agile Is the Occupational Wellbeing Strategy You Already Paid ForFinnish 🇫🇮 researchers just confirmed what agilists have known for years: burnout isn’t an individual failure, but a structural one.
Timo Toivonen·Feb 12Does a VUCAE-World lead into Mass Unemployment by Design?I propose that our current condition is a VUCAE-World that leads into a “lost decade”. If you are not working right now, prepare…
