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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: Production AI Agents Need Day-2 Planning.
7/8/20266 min readFeatured

Google Cloud Run's AI Agent Push Makes Day-2 Work Sprint Scope

Google Cloud is pushing teams beyond AI agent prototypes toward production-grade Cloud Run workloads. Product owners should estimate observability, security, data grounding, GPU cost, orchestration, and fallback behavior before the sprint starts.

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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: Cyber Safeguards Change User Stories.
7/3/20267 min readFeatured

Anthropic Fable 5's Cyber Safeguards Belong in Sprint Planning

Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 with updated cyber classifiers and a jailbreak severity framework. Product owners should plan blocked prompts, fallback models, false positives, audit logs, and escalation paths before AI workflows hit production.

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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: Public Sector AI Needs Scope Control.
6/30/20267 min readFeatured

California's Anthropic Claude Deal Makes AI Adoption Sprint Scope

California's new Anthropic agreement gives state agencies and local governments discounted Claude access. Product owners should treat AI rollout as backlog work: governance, training, data boundaries, workflow design, and planning poker assumptions.

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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: AI Coding Cost Belongs in Estimates.
6/24/20267 min readFeatured

Gartner's AI Coding Cost Warning Belongs in Sprint Planning

Gartner predicts AI coding token costs could surpass the average developer salary by 2028. Product owners should bring token budgets, model tiers, agent loops, and ROI assumptions into planning poker before AI-assisted work enters the sprint.

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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: AI Memory Changes Delivery Risk.
6/23/20267 min readFeatured

Micron and Anthropic's AI Memory Deal Is a Sprint Planning Signal

Micron and Anthropic's AI infrastructure agreement shows that memory, storage, supply, latency, and token economics are now product planning constraints for teams building AI features.

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Original PlannerPoker cover illustration: Agent Safety Is Backlog Scope.
6/21/20267 min readFeatured

Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap Makes Agent Safety Sprint Scope

Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap treats advanced AI agents like potential insider threats. Product owners should translate that into permissions, monitoring, escalation, rollback, and planning poker conversations before giving agents real work.

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