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The Stride Workflow

How do Humans collaborate with AI?

When I decided to make Stride a Human-AI collaboration tool I spent some time thinking about when and how Humans would want to interject themselves into an AI driven worflow. Those of you that know me know that I have spent a significant portion of my life helping teams optimize their work and achieve better flow. With AI in the mix it causes us to rethink some of what helps us achieve that flow. We have to be realistic about what Humans do best (at this time) and what AI does best and find a way to optimize around these things. At the same time, many Humans are not comfortable (at this time) with letting AI take over completely and they want to be involved in the process. This is what I came up with:


Getting Started with Stride

Stride - AI-Human Collaboration Platform

This post is to help you get started. Through a series of videos I will guide you through the entire process from initial setup to working with your AI Agent to build an initial backlog.

Let’s start at the beginning.

Building your first AI Optimized Board

After you’ve registered with the system you will want to create your first AI Optimized Board. This is an extremely simple process.


Stride goes full AI

Building an AI-Optimized Kanban System: A Human-AI Collaboration Experiment

I’m embarking on an experiment to build a Kanban task management system specifically designed for AI-human collaboration. This isn’t just another project management tool—it’s a system where AI agents and humans work together as peers on software development tasks.

The Vision

Most task management tools treat tasks as simple items with a title and description. But when you’re working with AI agents (like Claude, GPT-4, or custom agents), they need much more context to be effective. They need to understand:


Tensions with AI

Bringing AI into your organization

I have now worked with multiple teams that have introduced an AI driven development into their development workflow and I have seen a pattern emerge. When AI, and more specifically Vibe Coding, is introduced into a traditional software development organization that are following an Agile process there are three tensions that quickly arise. All three of these tensions are due to the rapid pace of development.


Hello world (again eh)!

I’m back

It has been a while since I’ve blogged. I had a blog named CheezyWorld.com for many years but stopped posting more than 12 years ago. At the time I was traveling for work as well as traveling around the world to speak at conferences. My life circumstances are different now and I am happy to return to blogging. I am doing (and have been doing) a lot of exciting work and have a lot to share.