Technical coach and product management consultant with 20+ years in software development across the US, Australia, and Europe. I help teams through strategy, facilitation, and hands-on guidance.https://teotti.com/enhttps://teotti.com/working-in-an-ai-first-company-2026/https://teotti.com/working-in-an-ai-first-company-2026/How AI agents change the product development workflow, from customer context and planning to implementation and review, and where the real bottlenecks move.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIhttps://teotti.com/using-an-ai-agent-to-navigate-an-undocumented-kubernetes-repo/https://teotti.com/using-an-ai-agent-to-navigate-an-undocumented-kubernetes-repo/A concrete example of using an AI agent to explore a GitOps repo, find a production-only CronJob, map confusing stage/staging overlays, and generate infrastructure documentation.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/precision-recall-f1-a-simple-explanation/https://teotti.com/precision-recall-f1-a-simple-explanation/Precision and recall separate two kinds of classifier error that a single accuracy number hides. Here's what they mean, when each one matters, and how F1 combines them.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIhttps://teotti.com/how-to-build-evals-for-llm-prompts-in-production/https://teotti.com/how-to-build-evals-for-llm-prompts-in-production/A practical guide to building eval systems for LLM prompts in production: project structure, test datasets, output formats, and the blind spots most teams miss.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIhttps://teotti.com/zombie-barbies-ai-writes-prettier-tickets-than-your-pm/https://teotti.com/zombie-barbies-ai-writes-prettier-tickets-than-your-pm/Vague tickets stall software development. Polished tickets without strategy are Zombie Barbies. Five templates for features, bugs, spikes, chores, and non-user work — plus an LLM prompt to generate them via MCP.Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/80-prompts-zero-evals-fixing-llm-pipeline-after-launch/https://teotti.com/80-prompts-zero-evals-fixing-llm-pipeline-after-launch/A client shipped an 80-prompt LLM pipeline with no evals, no audit trail, and no dashboards. By month five, operators were throwing away 80% of the output. Here's how I helped the team fix it — dashboards, deterministic safeguards, prompt isolation — while operators were still using the system.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIhttps://teotti.com/one-year-with-ai-in-production-what-actually-works/https://teotti.com/one-year-with-ai-in-production-what-actually-works/AI agents won't ship features while you sleep (yet), but they will change who can contribute to your codebaseThu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIhttps://teotti.com/how-to-increase-recall-on-a-job-classifier-with-heuristics-ml-and-a-smarter-llm/https://teotti.com/how-to-increase-recall-on-a-job-classifier-with-heuristics-ml-and-a-smarter-llm/A legacy LLM classifier was missing 32% of the jobs it was built to find. Here's how I replaced it with an ensemble of heuristics, ML, and a multi-step LLM chain — without increasing API costs.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIhttps://teotti.com/llm-with-mcps-assessing-application-performance/https://teotti.com/llm-with-mcps-assessing-application-performance/How connecting an LLM agent to Sentry, Posthog, and a production database helped me cut a 32-second p95 to 600msWed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/how-to-write-bug-reports-that-engineers-can-work-on/https://teotti.com/how-to-write-bug-reports-that-engineers-can-work-on/A practical guide to writing bug reports engineers want to pick up — with templates, examples, and prioritization guidelines.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyhttps://teotti.com/simplify-software-debugging-with-llm-mcp-and-source-code/https://teotti.com/simplify-software-debugging-with-llm-mcp-and-source-code/AI LLM with your production database and application source code can help you debug and triage issues in minutesThu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/generate-product-insights-with-ai-agent-db-mcp-and-app-sourcecode/https://teotti.com/generate-product-insights-with-ai-agent-db-mcp-and-app-sourcecode/Connecting AI agents to your database via MCP? You're missing half the picture. Add your app's source code to unlock domain-aware product insights.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/shopping-list-to-north-star/https://teotti.com/shopping-list-to-north-star/Your product roadmap is a shopping list. Here's a workshop to turn it into a north star with leading indicators you can actually steer by.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/llm-and-mcp-a-primer/https://teotti.com/llm-and-mcp-a-primer/An LLM is a brain thinking with its eyes closed. MCP lets it see and act. A simple guide to the building blocks of modern AI agents.Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIMCPhttps://teotti.com/8-standards-for-building-production-ready-features-using-llms/https://teotti.com/8-standards-for-building-production-ready-features-using-llms/Shipping LLM features without standards means flying blind. A practical checklist: test datasets, evals, budget limits, traces, and version control.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTstrategyAIhttps://teotti.com/is-it-online-or-virtual-facilitation/https://teotti.com/is-it-online-or-virtual-facilitation/People tend to use virtual and online interchangeably but they carry different meaning.Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/key-questions-to-ask-in-a-sprint-retrospective/https://teotti.com/key-questions-to-ask-in-a-sprint-retrospective/What are the key questions that you ask in your sprint retrospectives?Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationretrospectiveshttps://teotti.com/star-wars-agile-retrospectives-a-principle-12-story/https://teotti.com/star-wars-agile-retrospectives-a-principle-12-story/Can a metaphor help your Agile Retrospective? Here's my take with Star Wars. Do we want this Agile Retrospective outcome to destroy a tie-fighter or defeat the empire?Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationretrospectiveshttps://teotti.com/cynefin-helps-agile-retrospectives/https://teotti.com/cynefin-helps-agile-retrospectives/Do you feel like your Agile Retrospective is only tackling low hanging fruit and missing out on real improvements? Have you ever wondered if in your retro you're dealing with clear, complicated or complex issues? In this post I write how Cynefin can help with that.Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationretrospectiveshttps://teotti.com/questions-to-ponder-when-agile-retrospectives-are-missing-reflection/https://teotti.com/questions-to-ponder-when-agile-retrospectives-are-missing-reflection/In this post I share the chat I had with folks from HSD sharing my wicked issue of Agile Retrospectives missing out on reflectionFri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationretrospectiveshttps://teotti.com/how-i-ask-for-questions-while-facilitating-online/https://teotti.com/how-i-ask-for-questions-while-facilitating-online/How I ask for questions and antipatternsMon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/from-software-engineer-to-visualizer/https://teotti.com/from-software-engineer-to-visualizer/In this post I describe my journey in to the visualization world with links to resources that helped in my progression and that I wish I had on day 1Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/the-law-of-two-feet-in-open-space-online/https://teotti.com/the-law-of-two-feet-in-open-space-online/This article is for facilitators holding space and organizers of Open Space events that moved or want to move online.Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/video-call-from-your-LAN-during-covid19/https://teotti.com/video-call-from-your-LAN-during-covid19/Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTotherhttps://teotti.com/what-happens-before-an-agile-retrospective/https://teotti.com/what-happens-before-an-agile-retrospective/Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTretrospectivesagilefacilitationhttps://teotti.com/big-picture-event-storming/https://teotti.com/big-picture-event-storming/This is a summary of what I learned--circa 15 months ago--about big picture event storming during a two day workshop with Alberto Brandolini creator of Event Storming.Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationstrategyhttps://teotti.com/event-storming-one-year-later/https://teotti.com/event-storming-one-year-later/This is a summary of what I learned--circa 15 months ago--about big picture event storming during a two day workshop with Alberto Brandolini creator of Event Storming.Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationstrategyhttps://teotti.com/make-your-retrospective-facilitation-even-more-effective-here-4-things-to-look-at/https://teotti.com/make-your-retrospective-facilitation-even-more-effective-here-4-things-to-look-at/Many factors--specific to your context--can reduce the effectiveness of a retrospective and cause frustration and mistrust in the group. In this brief blog post I will describe how psychological safety, purpose, preparation and collaboration can help make your retrospectives even more effective**.Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTretrospectivesagilefacilitationhttps://teotti.com/remote-visual-facilitation-with-ipad-pro/https://teotti.com/remote-visual-facilitation-with-ipad-pro/Brief explanation of how I do remote visual facilitation with iPad pro and screen sharing.Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/challenge-agile-retrospectives-prime-directive/https://teotti.com/challenge-agile-retrospectives-prime-directive/This post assumes you know what a retrospective is and focuses on an activity to set the stage challenging what Kert's prime directive means to the group.Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTretrospectivesagilefacilitationhttps://teotti.com/analyze-kerth-prime-directive/https://teotti.com/analyze-kerth-prime-directive/This post assumes you know what a retrospective is and focuses on Kerth's prime directive to ensure the facilitator can answer common challenges and confidently explain it to the group.Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTretrospectivesagilefacilitationhttps://teotti.com/measure-success-of-your-agile-retrospective/https://teotti.com/measure-success-of-your-agile-retrospective/Retrospectives should be a core practice for any team but you must have a way to measure their success and team engagement otherwise they can become just another meeting. In this article I'll explain why they're both critical to retrospective success.Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTagileretrospectivesfacilitationhttps://teotti.com/change-your-agile-retrospective-format/https://teotti.com/change-your-agile-retrospective-format/Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTretrospectivesagilefacilitationhttps://teotti.com/concourse-pipeline-for-consumer-driven-tests-with-spring-boot-and-ruby/https://teotti.com/concourse-pipeline-for-consumer-driven-tests-with-spring-boot-and-ruby/Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 GMTautomated-testingrubyjavacrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/parallelising-ios-ui-tests/https://teotti.com/parallelising-ios-ui-tests/Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomated-testinghttps://teotti.com/untangle-unmaintainable-rails-controller-actions/https://teotti.com/untangle-unmaintainable-rails-controller-actions/Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railsarchitecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/simplelenium-with-chrome/https://teotti.com/simplelenium-with-chrome/Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTjavaautomated-testinghttps://teotti.com/thinking-sphinx-search-one-model-with-two-indices-with-static-attributes/https://teotti.com/thinking-sphinx-search-one-model-with-two-indices-with-static-attributes/Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/fluentlenium-with-google-chrome/https://teotti.com/fluentlenium-with-google-chrome/Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTjavaautomated-testinghttps://teotti.com/sikulix-automated-testing-with-image-recognition/https://teotti.com/sikulix-automated-testing-with-image-recognition/Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTautomated-testinghttps://teotti.com/prepare-my-first-tech-conference-talk/https://teotti.com/prepare-my-first-tech-conference-talk/Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/maintainable-rake-tasks-in-a-ruby-on-rails-application/https://teotti.com/maintainable-rake-tasks-in-a-ruby-on-rails-application/Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railsmaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/cognitive-overload-in-software-development/https://teotti.com/cognitive-overload-in-software-development/Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codearchitecturehttps://teotti.com/management-by-fear/https://teotti.com/management-by-fear/Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTexecutivehttps://teotti.com/create-dependency-structures-with-local-ruby-gems/https://teotti.com/create-dependency-structures-with-local-ruby-gems/Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTrubymaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/reengineer-legacy-rails-applications/https://teotti.com/reengineer-legacy-rails-applications/Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/application-directories-named-as-architectural-patterns-antipattern/https://teotti.com/application-directories-named-as-architectural-patterns-antipattern/Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTmaintainabilityruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/use-of-the-specification-pattern/https://teotti.com/use-of-the-specification-pattern/Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTrubymaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/a-successful-deploy-workflow-using-git-tags-and-a-changelog/https://teotti.com/a-successful-deploy-workflow-using-git-tags-and-a-changelog/Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/rails-vs-hanami/https://teotti.com/rails-vs-hanami/Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/relocate-from-sydney-australia-to-work-in-new-york-city/https://teotti.com/relocate-from-sydney-australia-to-work-in-new-york-city/Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMTotherhttps://teotti.com/rails-service-oriented-architecture-alternative-with-components/https://teotti.com/rails-service-oriented-architecture-alternative-with-components/Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/ignorance-driven-development/https://teotti.com/ignorance-driven-development/Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/ruby-on-rails-partials-are-slowing-you-down/https://teotti.com/ruby-on-rails-partials-are-slowing-you-down/Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/component-based-rails-architecture-primer/https://teotti.com/component-based-rails-architecture-primer/Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturemaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/ec2-instance-and-ip-geolocation/https://teotti.com/ec2-instance-and-ip-geolocation/Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/best-practices-releasing-semantic-versioned-ruby-libraries/https://teotti.com/best-practices-releasing-semantic-versioned-ruby-libraries/Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTrubyprocessmaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/mongo-command-line-brackets-highlighter/https://teotti.com/mongo-command-line-brackets-highlighter/Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/a-successful-ruby-on-rails-performance-analysis-guideline/https://teotti.com/a-successful-ruby-on-rails-performance-analysis-guideline/Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railsperformance-analysisprocesscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/a-process-to-identify-and-monitor-inconsistently-failing-automated-tests/https://teotti.com/a-process-to-identify-and-monitor-inconsistently-failing-automated-tests/Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTautomated-testinghttps://teotti.com/create-maintainable-mongodb-queries-in-ruby-with-query-object-and-mongoid-criterias/https://teotti.com/create-maintainable-mongodb-queries-in-ruby-with-query-object-and-mongoid-criterias/Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTrubymaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/reduce-memory-footprint-requiring-portions-of-your-component-based-rails-applications/https://teotti.com/reduce-memory-footprint-requiring-portions-of-your-component-based-rails-applications/Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/one-url-segment-serving-different-resources-with-ruby-on-rails-route-constraints/https://teotti.com/one-url-segment-serving-different-resources-with-ruby-on-rails-route-constraints/Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/ignore-query-strings-in-ruby-on-rails-caching-with-rack-cache/https://teotti.com/ignore-query-strings-in-ruby-on-rails-caching-with-rack-cache/Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/building-intention-revealing-ruby-on-rails-helpers/https://teotti.com/building-intention-revealing-ruby-on-rails-helpers/Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railsmaintainabilitycrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/simulate-order-by-field-with-mongodb-aggregates/https://teotti.com/simulate-order-by-field-with-mongodb-aggregates/Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMTcrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/ruby-on-rails-filter-pages-using-seach-engine-polymorphic-urls/https://teotti.com/ruby-on-rails-filter-pages-using-seach-engine-polymorphic-urls/Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/gemfiles-hierarchy-in-ruby-on-rails-component-based-architecture/https://teotti.com/gemfiles-hierarchy-in-ruby-on-rails-component-based-architecture/Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/git-precommit-hooks-helping-local-ruby-gems-development/https://teotti.com/git-precommit-hooks-helping-local-ruby-gems-development/Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railssoftware-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/deploy-parts-of-a-ruby-on-rails-application/https://teotti.com/deploy-parts-of-a-ruby-on-rails-application/Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/building-and-maintaining-large-ruby-on-rails-applications-for-3-years/https://teotti.com/building-and-maintaining-large-ruby-on-rails-applications-for-3-years/Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscomponent-based-rails-architecturecrafting-codehttps://teotti.com/use-of-rails-environments/https://teotti.com/use-of-rails-environments/Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTruby-on-railscrafting-code