Archive - Agile State of Mind

Lead AI Friday: GPT-5 - hype vs reality

How does the new flagship model fare in various tasks?

Aug 15 •

Lead AI Friday: GPT-5 just dropped!

Here's your executive summary

Aug 8 •

July 2025

What Is Developer Experience (DevEx) and Why It Matters

How to measure Developer Experience with self-reported and system data like DORA metrics?

Jul 29 •

Platform Engineering Series | #3 DORA Metrics, SLOs and SRE - Site Reliability Engineering

Think of DORA metrics as your engineering fitness tracker - understanding the metrics and roles that keep your systems fast and reliable.

Jul 7 •

June 2025

Platform Engineering Series | #2 Why Platforms and Who They Are For

Platforms help product teams deliver value to the business, faster and safer.

Jun 30 •

Platform Engineering Series | #1 From DevOps to Platform Teams

DevOps got us far. But it also got overwhelming.

Jun 25 •

From DevOps to Platform Engineering | And All The Things In Between Explained by João Alves

Listen now | DevOps, SRE, SLOs, Platform Engineering explained in natural language

Jun 23 •

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Collaboration Debt with Marcin Aks Grochowina

Listen now | The Hidden Debt Killing Your Team's Collaboration

Jun 11 •

28:59

An Alternative to Estimations: Planning Your Sprints and Projects with Monte Carlo Simulation

Listen now (55 mins) | Planning isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about preparing for it

Jun 5 •

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Benjamin Huser-Berta

54:32

Why Your AI Emails Sound Robotic (And How to Fix It)

A tech leader's practical comparison of AI models for email writing - from warm team communications to formal stakeholder updates

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Why We’re Still Estimating and Why It’s Wasting Everyone’s Time - Chat with Vasco Duarte

Listen now (54 mins) | Are Estimates The Comfort Blanket of The Corporate World? Chat with Vasco Duarte

May 6 •

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April 2025

'Be Glue, Agile Leader.' There’s a Disconnect in Agile. Loud in its Silence.

How Agile leaders and practitioners experience agile methodologies is strikingly different

Apr 22 •

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