James Shore

Hi there.

Are your teams working on the right thing?

AI is great for making teams faster.

Is AI making software development faster?

Software development has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of AI automation.

I was a consultant for 23 years before I joined OpenSesame as their VP of Engineering.

I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs.

When I’m not ranting about software development online, I like to relax with tabletop board games and RPGs.

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation at the Agile Cambridge conference in England on October 2nd, 2025.

I gave the opening keynote at the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025.

Jade Rubick interviewed me for his “Decoding Leadership” podcast recently.

Brent Miller: In April we would announce what we were doing for the conference in October... the year before Upscale we got zero done, which was just a terrible situation for us to be in. ...We started working on [Upscale] in the fall after the whiff on o…

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025.

Back in April, I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering.

One of my most enduring works is the Agile Fluency Model, which I created with Diana Larsen.

I’m thrilled to announce that my commercial “Testing Without Mocks” training course is now available for free!

In my new role as VP of Engineering, there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?”

Update: See an update on our progress in my August update.

I’m pleased to announce that the Korean translation of The Art of Agile Development is now available!