Your backlog should help the team remember

TL;DR: AI tools can only help with the context they can see. If story intent is scattered across Jira, Slack, docs, and memory, humans and AI both have to rebuild it. I wrote about using the backlog as shared working memory so teams can resume work w...

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Apr 15, 2026
Why scattered context is slowing your team down

Hi ,Teams often lose momentum for a reason that is easy to miss:the work is not necessarily that hard, but the context around the work is scattered.The task is in Jira.The decision is in a doc.The latest implementation details are on a branch.The AI...

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Mar 18, 2026
AI made your team 3x faster at building the wrong thing

Hey ,Demo day. Claude Code knocked out a backend migration in two days—so the team pulled in more work to fill the sprint. Cleaner APIs, better abstractions. Might as well use the time.Then the product manager asked: "What can users do now that they...

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Mar 05, 2026
A 2026 resolution: stop picking Jira resolutions

Hey — quick New Year’s “resolution” for your Jira workflow 😄Ever notice how Done in Jira doesn’t always mean resolved?Jira separates two concepts:Status: where the work is in the workflowResolution: why the work ended (Fixed, Won’t Fix, Duplicate, e...

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Dec 31, 2025
Quick update on last week’s pricing experiment

Hey, Jesse here with a super quick update.I ran the $9/mo personal plan experiment last week to see if price was stopping individual developers from trying imdone.The results were small but clear: a couple new customers signed up almost immediately,...

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Dec 11, 2025