In-Sprint vs. Out-of-Sprint Bugs
Not all bugs are the same kind of problem, and treating them as if they were leads teams astray. A bug can be found in a product already delivered to production, in a done Increment from a previous …
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Nexus Support in Azure DevOps, Honestly
Let me be candid, because I'd rather you hear it from me than discover it mid-scale. There is no first-class support for Nexus in Azure DevOps. There's no "enable Nexus" switch, no built-in Nexus …
Read more →The Supreme Court Leaves the Human-Only Rule Standing
This is the last stop on a road I've been following since the overview and the appeals court ruling. On March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, declining to hear …
Read more →Reusing Tests and Building a Regression Suite
Every Sprint you build a test plan full of acceptance tests. When the Sprint ends, what should you keep, and how? Not everything deserves to outlive its Sprint, but the tests that protect your …
Read more →Tags, Fields, and Area Paths: Slicing the Backlog
Sooner or later your Product Backlog gets big enough that you want to slice it: show me just the mobile work, just the bugs, just the items for the payments area. Azure Boards gives you three tools …
Read more →Managing One Product Backlog Across Many Teams
When organizations scale Scrum to several teams, the first thing that tends to fracture is the backlog. Every team wants its own list, and before long you have three or four backlogs, three or four …
Read more →Inspecting Test Progress Mid-Sprint
If your forecasted PBIs are expressed as failing acceptance tests, then progress becomes wonderfully simple to read. The more passing tests, the more progress. Right after Sprint Planning there should …
Read more →Workflow State Categories: Why Your States Map the Way They Do
Here's a question that stumps a lot of teams the first time they customize a process: how does Azure Boards know that "Committed" in Scrum and "Active" in Agile mean roughly the same thing? The agile …
Read more →Two of My Books Are in the Anthropic Settlement
I've spent a fair amount of ink on this blog arguing that AI-generated code has no human author, and therefore no copyright. This post is the other side of that coin, and it's personal. Two of the …
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