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California State Capitol viewed from 10th Street representing public sector AI adoption planning
6/30/20267 min readFeatured

California's Anthropic Claude Deal Makes AI Adoption Sprint Scope

California's new Anthropic agreement gives state agencies and local governments discounted Claude access. Product owners should treat AI rollout as backlog work: governance, training, data boundaries, workflow design, and planning poker assumptions.

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A laptop, notebook, and calculator representing AI coding cost planning
6/24/20267 min readFeatured

Gartner's AI Coding Cost Warning Belongs in Sprint Planning

Gartner predicts AI coding token costs could surpass the average developer salary by 2028. Product owners should bring token budgets, model tiers, agent loops, and ROI assumptions into planning poker before AI-assisted work enters the sprint.

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A GPU package with high bandwidth memory representing AI memory infrastructure
6/23/20267 min readFeatured

Micron and Anthropic's AI Memory Deal Is a Sprint Planning Signal

Micron and Anthropic's AI infrastructure agreement shows that memory, storage, supply, latency, and token economics are now product planning constraints for teams building AI features.

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A padlock over a blue circuit board representing AI agent security controls
6/21/20267 min readFeatured

Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap Makes Agent Safety Sprint Scope

Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap treats advanced AI agents like potential insider threats. Product owners should translate that into permissions, monitoring, escalation, rollback, and planning poker conversations before giving agents real work.

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Tim Sweeney speaking at the Game Developers Conference
6/18/20267 min readFeatured

Epic's Unreal Engine 6 Plan Makes Interoperability Sprint Scope

Epic is pushing Unreal Engine 6 toward portable content, Fortnite skin interoperability, Verse, and model-assisted workflows. Product owners should estimate the entitlement, marketplace, moderation, and rollback work before treating it as a simple integration.

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Elon Musk speaking at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2022
6/18/20267 min readFeatured

Elon Musk's Trillionaire Journey Is a Planning Lesson for Product Owners

Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire after SpaceX shares soared is not a template to copy blindly. It is a reminder that huge outcomes are built from long-range bets, measurable milestones, risk reviews, and relentless planning discipline.

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