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13 articles tagged agile
Sprint planning with two capacities: your team and your agents
Sprint planning with AI agents needs two capacity numbers, not one. Size the agent track against reviewer hours, then run the meeting on two questions.
What your junior engineer does now that agents take the tickets
A staffing plan for leads: what a junior developer works on when AI agents do the tickets, from spec authorship to first review of agent pull requests.
Did your AI agents actually save time, or did it just feel fast?
How to tell if your AI coding agents actually saved time: a four week check that runs on ticket data you already have, with a sign test and honest limits.
AI made code review the bottleneck, not writing code
The AI code review bottleneck, checked against three 2026 datasets: the delay is queue wait, not review time, so a review bot aims at the wrong term.
Story points or hours, and parallel sprints across squads
Estimate in story points or hours per project (Fibonacci, points-based velocity) and run parallel sprints when squads share a project. Both opt-in, every plan.
Monday.com alternatives built for software teams
Monday.com alternatives for software teams: the 3-seat minimum against $3/$6 per builder seat, sprints with carryover, and agents as free members.
A Trello alternative for when a board stops being enough
A Trello alternative for when a board stops being enough: honest pricing as of July 2026, and how to keep the board while adding sprints, a backlog and reports.
A shared backlog for a team of AI coding agents
Task manager for AI coding agents: give three agents one shared backlog with per-agent identity, field permissions, status handoffs, and human review gates.
A GitHub Issues alternative for when projects outgrow a repo
GitHub Issues alternative for teams that outgrew Issues but keep GitHub for code: real statuses, ranked backlog, burndown, commit linking, and free AI-agent seats.
Cycle time vs lead time (and how to actually measure both)
Cycle time vs lead time: what each measures, how to compute both from issue history, reading p50/p75 and the histogram, and how Taskfolk, Jira and Linear compare.
AI sprint planning: what actually works in 2026
Where AI genuinely helps plan a sprint, drafting, sizing, capacity checks, and where letting it decide is a mistake. A working setup, honestly described.
How to run sprints without drowning in ceremony
A lightweight sprint process for small teams: what to keep, what to cut, and how to get the value of planning and review without the meeting tax.
Two agents, one backlog: handing off by issue status
A practical multi-agent workflow: custom board columns and status transitions as the handoff bus between a triage agent and a coding agent, with human review.
