Is This How We Want to Spend It? — Lil Agile Monster
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Is This How We Want to Spend It?

Building the wrong thing, faster.

I spent six months working with a client where AI agents were writing most of the code. We moved fast, and for a while I couldn’t tell if the work we were doing was creating any value for the company.

From the session

This is the part nobody warns you about, and the short version of how we found out.

Spinning up an agent doesn’t feel like a decision

So nobody treats it like one. You don’t see what it costs until the bill arrives at the end of the month, and by then the capacity is already spent.

The harder things are the ones nobody’s watching

Somebody still has to decide what’s worth building. Somebody still has to read everything the agents hand back. Neither of those got faster.

One in five

We didn’t actually know until we tried to align all of our work to the company’s objectives. One in five items aligned with the strategy, and half of that work was fixing bugs.

The agents found it

The thing I didn’t expect. The same agents that made it easy to spend the capacity turned out to be the fastest way to see where it had gone.

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The flow and forecasting discipline underneath this is what I teach in my accredited ProKanban.org courses.

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