# Next Biz Thing #395 scrums.com

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Podcast: [Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business](https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632)
Published: 2026-08-12T08:32:50+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e2a10032
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## Resource

Scrums.com https://www.scrums.com This episode of The Next Biz Thing turns its attention to Scrums.com, a Software Engineering Orchestration Platform that has spent fourteen years working on why software delivery remains so unpredictable. Markus J. Diplama walks through how the company unifies AI engineering agents, managed delivery squads, pre-vetted talent across more than a hundred technology stacks, cloud provisioning and DORA based analytics into one system, and why its outcomes based billing model signals real confidence. The episode also looks at the company’s African delivery hubs and what its approach suggests about the wider re-bundling of business software. Well worth a listen for anyone whose business depends on shipping software. There is a question that quietly haunts almost every company building software today, and it is not the one you might expect. It is not whether artificial intelligence will change engineering. That argument is settled. The real question, the one that keeps chief technology officers awake, is far less glamorous and far more practical. It is this: why, after decades of better tools, faster machines, and smarter people, is shipping software still so unpredictable? Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where we go looking for the companies that are not simply riding a wave but actually reshaping the water underneath it. Every episode, I pick one business that is doing something genuinely interesting in its corner of the world, and we spend some time understanding what it does, why it matters, and what it tells us about where an entire industry is heading. Today we are heading into the world of software engineering, and specifically into a company that has spent fourteen years trying to answer…

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