Canonical page: https://tellenze.com/reading-radar # Reading Radar Explore Agile, ways of working and practical AI for teams. Find recent articles from six sources, then follow an idea back to its author. Updated daily. ## TBM 444: What a Workplace Can’t Promise The Beautiful Mess · Ways of Working · 11 October 2026 · By John Cutler In other posts, I’ve written about the distinction between “the work” and “the workplace.” I want to dig a little more into what makes workplaces unique. [Read the original]() [Tellenze’s perspective: Meaningful Work Without Unspoken Promises](https://tellenze.com/blog/meaningful-work-without-unspoken-promises-01m4n6ff1ncedgs9nxerr17xvk) ## SAFe Didn't Scale Agile. It Scaled Bureaucracy. Scrum.org · Agile · 11 October 2026 · By Ralph Jocham Image Gary Hamel spent decades asking why large organizations become rigid, slow, and hard to work inside. His diagnosis is simple: bureaucracy is not a symptom of poor management. It is a design, and its purpose is control, not the creation of value. I have been watching this design operate inside enterprise product teams since 2010, and one of its most successful recent forms wears an Agile badge.The teams that struggle most are rarely short of process. They have Release Train Engineers, quarterly PI Planning, Portfolio SAFe layers, and Agile coaches in numbers that would surprise most start [Read the original]() ## A new feature for my blog, built using my voice Simon Willison · AI for Teams · 9 October 2026 I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop while I cooked dinner. Codex voice mode I used the ChatGPT desktop app for this, in the Codex tab, using the voice conversation mode, running against a local development environment. Here's what that looks like: I started the session against my local simonwillisonblog checkout by typing: Start dev server and open in browser [Read the original]() ## Claude Haiku 5.5 Simon Willison · AI for Teams · 7 October 2026 As previously promised, here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5. The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago, and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively expensive even back then, and a full 10x the price of OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, released last month. The new Haiku exactly matches the price of GPT-6 Luna - $0.10/$0.50 - up to 100,000 tokens. Beyond 100,000 tokens the price increases 5x to $0.50/$2.50. Luna itself has a price increase at 272,000 tokens but only to $0.20/$0.75. Haiku 5.5 also uses [Read the original]() ## 📺 How to Catch AI Delegation Drift Before Your Board Does Scrum.org · Agile · 7 October 2026 · By Stefan Wolpers TL;DR: The AI Delegation Audit Webinar RecordingWhen AI-assisted output still looks fine, it is tempting to conclude the delegation is fine. In my October 6 webinar with Scrum.org on the AI Delegation Audit, I walked through a fictional case in which that belief held for months, then fell apart in a board meeting, and showed the check that would have caught it. Image Thesis: The AI Delegation Audit is a 45- to 60-minute review in the A3 Delegation System, run like a Sprint Retrospective, that checks whether a team’s AI delegations still hold; the post explains its four checks with a fictional [Read the original]() ## Der Kobra-Effekt in der KI-Transformation: So misst du den Erfolg deiner KI-Strategie, ohne den Fehler zu wiederholen, an dem schon Agile-Transformationen gescheitert sind Scrum.org · Agile · 7 October 2026 · By Simon Flossmann Seit Jahresbeginn begleite ich ein Unternehmen bei der Einführung von KI. Wie du dir denken kannst, dreht sich ein großer Teil meiner Arbeit um eine Frage:Woran lässt sich der Erfolg der KI-Transformationen festmachen?Die Antworten ließen mich aufhorchen:„Jeder Mitarbeiter nutzt in der täglichen Arbeit KI.“„KI-Tools liefern 95 % Genauigkeit bei allen Ergebnissen.“„Die Tokennutzung in der Entwicklung steigt um 25 %.“Moment mal, diese Sätze kenne ich doch schon:„Alle Teams arbeiten nach Scrum.“„95 % der geplanten User-Stories wurden umgesetzt.“„Entwicklerteams liefern 25 % mehr Velocity.“Erst Sc [Read the original]() ## Your Framework Isn't Broken. Your Fundamentals Are. Scrum.org · Agile · 6 October 2026 · By Steven Deneir Image You've done the reorganization. You've swapped the framework, maybe more than once. Scrum, then a bit of SAFe, then something homegrown. New ceremonies, a new tool. And the same problems came back. The status that was green until it snapped. The retro that produces conversation and no change. The decision that got made properly in the meeting and then unmade in the hallway. The team that waits more than it works. The release nobody checks on. If you've been reading along these past weeks, you've met all five. And here's the thing they have in common: not one of them was caused by the fra [Read the original]() ## The Role of Agency in Scrum: Why Self-Management Without Agency is a Lie Scrum.org · Agile · 6 October 2026 · By Martin Hinshelwood Originally published on Engineering Leadership.Scrum is often misunderstood as a set of ceremonies or a lightweight project management method. It is neither. Scrum is a social technology built around the ethos of Agile, enabling teams to deliver adaptive solutions in complex environments. At its core lies a fundamental, non-negotiable requirement: self-management.But self-management is not simply a label you apply to teams. It demands something deeper and harder: real agency.Without agency, Scrum collapses into shallow ritual. Without agency, accountability is performative, not real.Without ag [Read the original]() ## Scrum Day India 2026 Recap: Scrum Teams in the Age of Autonomous Agents Scrum.org · Agile · 5 October 2026 · By Sanjay Saini Image On Saturday, 26 September 2026, Scrum practitioners gathered at To The New in Sector 144, Noida, for Scrum Day India 2026. The theme was Scrum Teams in the Age of Autonomous Agents.For the last two years, most conversations about AI in Scrum have been about assistance: a better first draft of a user story, a faster summary of a Sprint Review. This year's sessions started from a different place. Agents now pick up Product Backlog items, run checks, and produce Increments alongside the humans on the team. So the question was not whether Scrum still works. It was what Scrum Masters, Product [Read the original]() ## Fragments: October 4 Martin Fowler · Agile · 5 October 2026 · By Martin Fowler In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what was on their mind, but their post immediately made me think of the classic 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Plenty of sci-fi, and other literature, have explored humans creating technology with unintended behavior, going back at least to Mary Shelly. But that movie was particularly influential on sci-fi film-making and in t [Read the original]() ## 5 Things the Scrum Master Shouldn’t Be Doing Scrum.org · Agile · 4 October 2026 · By Mary Iqbal Image I love being a Scrum Master. What I love about it is helping a team accomplish something and honestly just making Developers' work lives as hassle-free as possible. I love working with smart people and seeing them accomplish amazing things.As a Scrum Master, most of us want to help. But sometimes we think we are helping when we’re actually hurting the team.As a case in point, when I was a new Scrum Master, I was looking for how to add value to the team. So, I observed that submitting security and access requests was an annoying administrative job for the Developers. I suggested that I co [Read the original]() ## Outcome-Based Leadership in Project Management: Measuring What Really Matters Scrum.org · Agile · 4 October 2026 · By Dominik Maximini Image The ContextI once led a software development program with more than 100 developers and several project managers. The projects were strategically important for the company, and expectations from upper leadership were high.Officially, the organization was working with Scrum. In practice, however, the organization was following a waterfall approach. Upper leadership was not satisfied with the program's performance. Project managers were also under increasing pressure to improve their individual performance.My mission was clear: get the program back on track and help the project managers rea [Read the original]() [Older articles](https://tellenze.com/reading-radar.md?page=2) ## Meet the sources These articles belong to their original authors. 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