https://laimonade.com/blog Notes on product ownership for teams running coding agents. en https://laimonade.com/blog/ai-product-owner-vs-human-product-owner https://laimonade.com/blog/ai-product-owner-vs-human-product-owner Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An AI product owner does not take over the deciding. It takes over the specifying and the checking, which is where the week actually goes once agents are building. https://laimonade.com/blog/signs-your-team-has-a-product-ownership-gap https://laimonade.com/blog/signs-your-team-has-a-product-ownership-gap Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six symptoms of a product-ownership gap that read as ordinary team friction, and are one thing underneath: work is built faster than it is specified. https://laimonade.com/blog/why-agent-adoption-stalls-after-the-first-month https://laimonade.com/blog/why-agent-adoption-stalls-after-the-first-month Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Month one of coding-agent adoption spends a backlog written over the previous year. The stall that follows is a supply problem, not a model problem. https://laimonade.com/blog/what-is-mcp-and-why-it-matters-for-backlogs https://laimonade.com/blog/what-is-mcp-and-why-it-matters-for-backlogs Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Model Context Protocol turns a backlog from a page someone reads into a service an agent can call. What that changes, and what to withhold. https://laimonade.com/blog/definition-of-done-when-an-agent-wrote-the-code https://laimonade.com/blog/definition-of-done-when-an-agent-wrote-the-code Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A commit message is a claim and the diff is the evidence. What a definition of done has to say once the author is an agent, and why the last step stays human. https://laimonade.com/blog/who-owns-the-backlog-when-agents-write-the-code https://laimonade.com/blog/who-owns-the-backlog-when-agents-write-the-code Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Backlog ownership splits into deciding what should exist and keeping each item executable. Only one of those two halves is still a meeting. https://laimonade.com/blog/how-to-write-a-backlog-item-an-agent-can-execute https://laimonade.com/blog/how-to-write-a-backlog-item-an-agent-can-execute Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A backlog item for AI agents needs five fields a human reader never asks for. Here they are, with one real item rewritten from unusable to executable. https://laimonade.com/blog/what-an-ai-product-owner-actually-does https://laimonade.com/blog/what-an-ai-product-owner-actually-does Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT An AI product owner turns decisions into work an agent can execute, sequences it, hands it over, and checks what comes back. Deciding stays human. https://laimonade.com/blog/a-backlog-an-agent-can-read https://laimonade.com/blog/a-backlog-an-agent-can-read Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four backlog failure modes that stand between a normal backlog and an agent-ready backlog. Each reads as an ordinary unfinished ticket.