Mark Levison

"AI makes estimation accurate!"
Wrong. Estimation is flawed because it ignores variability.
Real value? Team conversations building shared understanding.
Don't automate that away.
#Scrum
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💡 Most successful client projects: Deeply involved clients who AREN'T the PO
Why? Product Ownership needs daily availability + quick decisions + technical understanding. Clients excel at business vision, not dev tactics.
Play to strengths.
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Drowning in an Oversized Product Backlog? Story Mapping Is Your Life Raft Can you guess how many Product Backlog Items (PBIs) are in your Product Backlog right now? I’ll wait while you go look.

Most items in oversized backlogs will never be built. Story Mapping helps you see what's valuable and let go of dead weight.
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Less is More: Creating Resilient Systems Through Simplicity Understand how simplifying processes leads to more resilient teams. Start to identify unnecessary complexity.

Many meetings solve problems caused by… too many meetings. 😬
Simplify the system.
Boost resilience.
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AI can assist, but it can’t replace the heart of Scrum—collaboration & facilitation. ❤️🤖
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AI isn’t your new Product Owner.
(At least, not a good one.) 😅
Here’s what gets lost when Gen AI replaces the thinking in Scrum:
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AI can write code... and chaos. 🌀
Before your team dives head-first into the automation pool, read this:
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Ok not liteally. A better framing, the models have seen the pattern enough in training data to recognize that 6x7=42 is an equation. Equations equal math therefore attempt to convert the equation to Python code.

AI confidence = learned internet tone, not actual knowledge 😤
Sounds certain because training data was confident, not because it knows things.
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🤖 Tested AI on Tennis Kata - it writes clean code that misses the point. AI = speed, Humans = wisdom. Stop fearing, start leveraging 🎯
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✅ When LLMs help create content faster but overwhelm downstream processes, performance slows overall. Goal: effectiveness (right outcomes) not activity. Focus on throughput of meaningful work, not task volume.

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Start a conversation around new products ideas is hard, with all of the noise surrounding #GenAI

I look forward to the #GenAI bubble bursting.

#EffectiveScrum #LeaningInPublic

📈 Before GenAI: establish baselines, track where work gets stuck, measure real delays. Data shows where technology helps vs where process changes needed. True efficiency ≠ being busy.

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🧠 PredictiveAI promises automated decisions but past data can be biased/incomplete. Even when accurate across thousands of cases, often no better than coin flips for individual choices. Study workflow instead.

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"That's a great question!" - your AI is being fake nice 🎭
Sycophantic responses are pattern-matched, not genuine. Don't let artificial validation affect judgment.
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AI cheats at math by secretly using Python 🧮
6×7=42 not because it calculated, but because it saw that equation millions of times in training.
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🤖 GenAI struggles with Tennis Kata business logic but nails implementation. Translation? Stop competing with AI, start collaborating. Less boilerplate stress, more creative problem-solving ⚡
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Your AI chats aren't private 🔒 Most vendors log everything. Staff may access logs.
Want true privacy? Apple's Siri Intelligence or local models only.
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⚡ When everything needs senior approval, GenAI making more content = bigger bottlenecks. Most decisions are reversible—push authority down, reduce delays. Understanding constraints > generating content faster.

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Human-Powered AI - A Fun Way to Understand How GenAI Really Works Demystify GenAI with a hands-on simulation! See how it works mimicry, not magic

What happens inside GenAI when you hit send? Human simulations reveal: no thinking, no memory, no learning - just sophisticated pattern matching to predict text. Teams learn GenAI limits and abilities and that they aren't magic.

Scrum is more than meetings and velocity charts.
These books help devs build software that actually works.

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Mismeasurement Mess - IRCC Leads the Way Is IRCC's focus on speed creating unfair visa denials? Explore how mis-measurement clogs the system and hurts applicants.

From solving backlogs to creating new ones. 🔄
Immigration "efficiency": measure only speed. Result: valid applications denied, appeals backlog worse than original.
Balance your metrics.
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GenAI anxiety cure: understanding how it actually works. Teams physically demonstrate that GenAI doesn't think or remember - it matches patterns to predict text. Knowledge removes fear. 🔍
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Mismeasurement Mess - IRCC Leads the Way Is IRCC's focus on speed creating unfair visa denials? Explore how mis-measurement clogs the system and hurts applicants.

Canada's immigration speed-only measurement created chaos: officers making snap decisions on complex applications.
Local optimization → global failure.
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🎯 GenAI helps government work when applied thoughtfully. After identifying bottlenecks + clear priorities, specific tasks can benefit. Won't fix systemic issues. Key: experiment, measure, adjust based on actual results.

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🎾 The Tennis Kata shows GenAI is like autocomplete on steroids - amazing at syntax, clueless about context. Choose the right division of labor for happier, more productive developers 🚀✨
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AI can't learn from mistakes because it doesn't know it made any 🤷♀️
Explanations for errors are fabricated. It's generating plausible text, not self-reflecting.
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Will AI Make the Federal Government More Efficient or Just More Busy? GenAI and PredictiveAI promise greater efficiency, but speeding up workers often makes bottlenecks worse. Focus on these three things instead.

Bureaucracy + AI = two possible futures:
✨ Streamlined services
⏳ Faster red tape
How do we make sure we get the first one?
Start with process, trust, and human decision-making.

🎾 The Tennis Kata shows why AI won't replace developers - it can't model domains or understand "why." But as a programming partner? Game-changing productivity boost ⚡✨
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