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AI Made Your Developers Faster. It Made Your Coordination Problem Worse.

When every developer ships 3x faster, you don't have fewer things in flight - you have more. Your AI pair programmer has zero context about another team's emergency. Here is the part nobody is talking about.

Henrik·4 min read

Scope Creep Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Scrum says don't change the sprint backlog. Every team does anyway. Flights makes scope changes explicit and visible - because the discipline isn't rigidity, it's honest triage.

Henrik·5 min read

You Don't Need Our Tool to Try This

The methodology is free. We ran Flights for two years with sticky notes and a Figma file before building the app. Here is how to set it up in Notion, Sheets, or on a whiteboard.

Henrik·5 min read

We Received a Partnership Offer for Our Travel Booking Tool

A startup reached out wanting to feature our travel booking and flight management tool on their platform. We are not a travel booking and flight management tool.

Henrik·3 min read

Story Points Are Theatre

Planning poker as group performance. Velocity charts that give everyone a false sense of confidence. What happens when you replace estimation rituals with "done or not done."

Henrik·6 min read

Your Stakeholders Don't Understand Sprint Velocity. That's Not Their Fault.

When we told our CEO "sprint velocity dropped 15%," we got blank stares. When we said "this flight is hitting headwinds but still lands Friday," everyone knew exactly what that meant.

Henrik·6 min read

We Ditched Scrum. Here's What We Replaced It With.

Not because we read some contrarian blog post, but because we looked at our calendars and realized we spent more time talking about work than doing it.

Henrik·7 min read