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Cast Part 7: Sprint Planning, Spec Writing, and a Foundry OAuth Mystery

Adding capacity-aware sprint planning with human approval gates, a 10-section spec writer built on our Phoenix template that refuses to fabricate ROI data, and debugging a Foundry OAuth consent service failure.

Agent Building 31 March 2026 28 min read

Measuring What Matters: A Framework for AI Success Measurement

Why 95% of AI projects fail to show ROI, and a seven dimension framework for measuring what actually matters: quality, adoption, trust, cognitive load, and strategic impact.

Engineering Leadership 24 March 2026 4 min read

Cast Part 6: From Document Generator to Combined Agent

Building a YAML-driven document rendering pipeline, discovering why multi-agent workflows break in Foundry, and consolidating everything into a single GPT-4.1 agent with 50+ tools.

Agent Building 19 March 2026 16 min read

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Cast: An AI Azure DevOps Agent

A multi-agent system built on Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry that assists engineering teams with Azure DevOps management, sprint planning, work item discovery, and document generation.

ADO MCP Server

Azure DevOps MCP server with Streamable HTTP transport for Microsoft Foundry. 45 tools across 5 ADO domains — core, work items, work, repositories, and wiki — with OAuth Identity Passthrough and JWT validation.

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