Beyond Sprints
A Workflow Playbook for Agentic Teams
By Mike McGreal, Dendro Logic
What it is
A workflow and operating-model playbook for teams where AI agents write the code: what replaces sprints, estimation and the ceremonies built for human-paced delivery.
Who it's for
Engineering leaders, EMs and CTOs rethinking delivery for AI-accelerated teams.
Why it matters
Agile was built to manage human coding capacity, the exact constraint agents remove. The old cadence, estimation and gating now slow teams down. This is the redesign.
TL;DR
Why sprints break, what replaces them (continuous flow, Shape Up, appetite over estimation), a ceremony-by-ceremony redesign, the engineer-as-orchestrator model, verification as the new constraint, flow metrics over velocity, and a concrete proposed operating model. Grounded in the METR and DORA evidence.
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