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
The Shared Context Problem Is Slowing Your Team Down

I don't think most teams are slowed down by lack of effort. I think they're slowed down because the context for the work is scattered. The task is in Jira. The decision is in a doc. The code is on a branch. The AI prompt that explains the reasoni...

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Mar 17, 2026
Fast Delivery Isn't Enough. You Need Fast Feedback.

It's demo day. Claude Code knocked out the data layer migration in two days. So the team pulled in more backend work—cleaner API contracts, better abstractions. Might as well use the time. The product manager asks: "So what can users do now that t...

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

TL;DR: In Jira, Status and Resolution are different fields. Depending on your workflow, Jira may prompt you for a resolution… or it may not. That’s how teams end up with issues that are Done but still Unresolved. I shipped a small fix in imdone-cli...

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Dec 31, 2025
It's in Jira. Somewhere.

4:45pm Friday. You need that screenshot from three weeks ago. It's in Jira. Somewhere. You open 6 tabs. Check 4 different projects. Scroll through 20 comments. Download 3 files to check which one it is. 15 minutes later, you finally find it. By...

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Dec 16, 2025