Gordon Burgett Fractional AI Director
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Notes on leading engineering teams through the AI shift, roughly monthly.

Writing · AI

Scrum is Broken

Scrum is broken. I thought I knew what Agile looked like. 2-week sprints, story points, daily standups. I ran that cadence at my last job. …

June 2026
Writing · AI

Pushing Claude Code Further with Spec Driven Development

The Problem I’m Trying to Solve I’ve been coding with AI agents for as long as they’ve been generally available, and I …

March 2026
Writing · AI

Building Alice, an Empowering AI Agent

What does it look like to build AI agents that actually empower people’s lives, not just “augment” them? For HealthShare …

March 2026
Writing · Development

Building an Unstructured Data Import

Sometimes the hardest thing to figure out is not “how” to best apply a new technology, but “when not” to apply it. …

November 2024
Writing · Development

Implementing Licensing & Permissions in a React Redux app

In the process of building out the VoirDire App for our client, we ran into an interesting problem. How do we enforce licensing requirements …

October 2024
Writing · Development

Thoughts on Cursor

As AI tools continue to reshape software development, I’ve been particularly impressed with Cursor, an AI-powered code editor that has …

September 2024

Rethinking how your team plans work in the AI shift?

This is most of what I do now — happy to compare notes on what you're seeing.