Welcome to the Otter’s Den Thomas Holt 4/1/25 Thomas Holt 4/1/25 Nothing feels real anymore. Read More Thomas Holt 4/1/25 Thomas Holt 4/1/25 Okay is not okay with me Read More Thomas Holt 3/28/25 Thomas Holt 3/28/25 The AI + Agile Decision Tree: Where AI Actually Helps and Where It Creates Chaos Read More Thomas Holt 3/26/25 Thomas Holt 3/26/25 Help! My team is growing, but our output isn’t! Read More Thomas Holt 3/4/25 Thomas Holt 3/4/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #6: Treating Jira as a Silver Bullet (or Silver Tape) Read More Thomas Holt 3/3/25 Thomas Holt 3/3/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #5: Not Aligning Jira to How Teams Actually Work Read More Thomas Holt 2/26/25 Thomas Holt 2/26/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #4: The Infinite Backlog of Doom® Read More Thomas Holt 2/25/25 Thomas Holt 2/25/25 Software Without Borders: How Soft Skills are Separating Good from Great Distributed Teams Read More Thomas Holt 2/25/25 Thomas Holt 2/25/25 How to let Jira ruin your process #3 Read More Thomas Holt 2/20/25 Thomas Holt 2/20/25 How to let Jira ruin your process #2 Read More Thomas Holt 2/18/25 Thomas Holt 2/18/25 How to let Jira ruin your process #1 Read More Thomas Holt 2/11/25 Thomas Holt 2/11/25 How a dedicated QA team can actually lower quality Read More Thomas Holt 2/4/25 Thomas Holt 2/4/25 AI will be the fall and rising of many Read More Thomas Holt 1/30/25 Thomas Holt 1/30/25 New and Improved: Now with AI! Read More Thomas Holt 1/23/25 Thomas Holt 1/23/25 Parkinson’s Law and Why Sprints Work Read More Thomas Holt 1/21/25 Thomas Holt 1/21/25 Murphy’s Law and Why Agility Beats Planning in Software Development Read More Thomas Holt 1/16/25 Thomas Holt 1/16/25 How to Avoid the Peter Principle . . . Read More Thomas Holt 1/14/25 Thomas Holt 1/14/25 Goodhart’s Law: A Lesson for Leaders Read More Thomas Holt 1/9/25 Thomas Holt 1/9/25 Brook’s Law Read More Thomas Holt 1/7/25 Thomas Holt 1/7/25 Why are estimates always wrong? Read More Older Posts
Thomas Holt 3/28/25 Thomas Holt 3/28/25 The AI + Agile Decision Tree: Where AI Actually Helps and Where It Creates Chaos Read More
Thomas Holt 3/4/25 Thomas Holt 3/4/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #6: Treating Jira as a Silver Bullet (or Silver Tape) Read More
Thomas Holt 3/3/25 Thomas Holt 3/3/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #5: Not Aligning Jira to How Teams Actually Work Read More
Thomas Holt 2/26/25 Thomas Holt 2/26/25 How to Let Jira Ruin Your Process #4: The Infinite Backlog of Doom® Read More
Thomas Holt 2/25/25 Thomas Holt 2/25/25 Software Without Borders: How Soft Skills are Separating Good from Great Distributed Teams Read More
Thomas Holt 1/21/25 Thomas Holt 1/21/25 Murphy’s Law and Why Agility Beats Planning in Software Development Read More
