Charting unknown Waters

The Logbook of agile tales. Navigating complexity one entry at a time.

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The Iron Triangle

Logbook Entry#20
Time, Cost, Quality. Pick two. A rule from 1969, what it hides about Quality, and what AI brings to the surface. With Pirsig, Atkinson, DSDM's reshuffle, PMI's quiet retreat from the model, and the half-ass that outlives each version of it.

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Goliath's Armor

Logbook Entry#18
The labor shortage isn't a people problem. Through David's refusal of King Saul's armor, this post traces the intergenerational pattern, the German school system, and what AI does to the thinker/doer divide.

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Charles' Predicament

Logbook Entry#17
From Chaplin's feeding machine to token leaderboards: four costumes, one law. Why measuring AI consumption as productivity produces more output with less value…And what 22,000 developers reveal about the dashboard illusion.

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The Deal

Logbook Entry#16
Every job has two deals. The written one works. The unspoken one breaks. Why sacrifice gets rewarded, loyalty stays irrational, and the game keeps running.

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The Drift

Logbook Entry#12
One mistake in AI becomes part of the system. Then the system builds on top of it. Semantic drift doesn't just happen. It compounds and becomes its architectural foundation.

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Ai Agile

Logbook Entry#10
Agile and its ceremonies cost big bucks per team per year. The real number is probably double. AI won't make them disappear (at least at the moment), but it changes what your team actually spends time on — while we need to question how that time is spent.

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