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We Open Sourced Our Digital.ai Agility to Azure DevOps Migrator

Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If your organization is still tracking work in Digital.ai Agility, formerly VersionOne, and you have decided to move to Azure DevOps, the decision was the easy part. The migration is where it gets …

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Who Owns the Monkey Selfie? Same Answer as Your AI Code

Aug 5, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In 2011, a British nature photographer named David Slater hauled his gear into a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to shoot a troop of crested macaques. The animals were curious about the …

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Named a Microsoft MVP in DevOps, Again

Jul 31, 2026 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The email arrived this week: I have been accepted into the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional program for the coming year, in DevOps. The award date is August 1, 2026. I am genuinely happy about it, …

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Which AI-Code Risk Persona Is Your Organization?

Jul 1, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

By now the headline is familiar: pure AI output has no human author, so under U.S. law nobody owns it. I've made that case in the overview, watched a federal appeals court confirm it, and watched the …

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Can You Automate Copyright Registration From an Azure Pipeline?

Jun 26, 2026 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Short answer: not the whole thing, and you shouldn't want to. You can automate the tedious, deterministic part of registering your source code with the U.S. Copyright Office, but the filing itself …

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Associating Commits to Work Items for Traceability

Jun 13, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It's a smell when I don't see commits associated with a work item. It usually means the Developers decided that traceability isn't worth the extra step. It is. Linking a Git commit to the work item it …

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What Makes a Good Bug Report

May 27, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A bug report is exactly what it sounds like: the reporting of a bug or other unwanted behavior in the product. The point of writing a good one is to give the Scrum Team enough information to …

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Nexus Sprint Planning in Practice

May 12, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

People hear "Sprint Planning at scale" and imagine a giant meeting with sixty people in a room trying to plan one enormous Sprint. That's not how Nexus Sprint Planning works, and if that's what you're …

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From Manual to Automated Acceptance Tests

Apr 20, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Professional Scrum Developers agree that automated testing is awesome and a must-have. But if your team isn't there yet, "go automate everything" is useless advice. The good news is that the path from …

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