Stuart Munton
CIO - Chief for Group Operations and Technology AND Scrum Half @ AND Digital
Reading, United Kingdom
Actions
Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values spanning his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate in 2004.
Stuart joined AND Digital as a 10 person start-up in 2014 and led the set-up and evolution of ways of working as they grew to 1000+ consultants. He has honed practices for ~50 clients across various industries - Retail, eCommerce, Insurance, Leisure, Hospitality, Media, Publishing etc.
Currently, as Chief for Group Operations & Technology, Stuart directs AND’s internal technology functions consisting of Information Technology, Software Development, DevSecOps, ISO, and guiding AND’s AI enablement. He also regularly advises on AND’s complex and scaled engagements.
In 2020 Stuart co-founded the Agile Reading meet-up group. He has organised 50+ Agile and Digital external speaker monthly sessions, recently re-launching as FutureSkills:Reading to cover AI, Data, VR / AR, and other technologies.
External public speaker and keynote at international conferences (e.g. Agile on the Beach, ACE Krakow, XP2023, ScanAgile, Global Scrum Gathering, Agile2025 etc.)
Stuart lives with his family in Reading Berkshire where he is a coach and semi-retired player at his local rugby club and is a lifelong Leicester Tigers rugby team fan.
Links
Area of Expertise
Topics
The Convergence - how AI is changing Agile Roles, Teams, and Practices.
"The Convergence" is a future facing interactive discussion about the profound impact of AI on Agile Product Delivery. Ushering in an era where AI Transformations become the focal point, surpassing the current realms of Agile and Digital Transformation strategic approaches.
The session explores the evolution of key team roles, showcasing how currently compartmentalised roles are converging into new hybrid forms. We will focus on specific roles, including Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, and Delivery Managers, providing practical examples and case studies to illustrate these AI driven changes.
We will discuss how “The Convergence” of roles is changing our approach to shaping team capabilities, how it will increase in speed with which teams will need to form / reform, and how this will significantly alter the daily activity of people in these fluid AI augmented micro teams.
During the session we will touch on the wide range of AI approaches that are currently available and how you might make sense of the appropriate options in this rapidly evolving landscape. This is not a ‘one-size fits all approach’, however indecision is increasing the risk of non-AI augmented teams and organisation being left behind.
‘AI Strategy Canvas’ - shaping your approach to AI
AI is changing agile delivery roles, teams, and practices. Shaping and defining your AI strategy is fundamentally important to help you keep ahead in this rapidly evolving world.
This interactive session introduces the ‘AI Strategy Canvas’ that uses traditional canvas techniques and AI augmentation in Miro to shape AI strategy that can be focused at multiple applicable levels :-
> Individual - Starting with individual level AI evolution where we explore the convergent effect of AI with their personal skills and competencies.
> Team - Scaling up to team and ‘team of teams’ level where we investigate and select the appropriate AI enhanced practices to enhance team and inter-team dynamics.
> Organisation - Moving up to organisation level where we define strategic AI approach at a wider level, using this to guide decisions, and direct future transformational change.
The canvas will be introduced using worked examples to ensure clarity. We will touch on the range of AI approaches and how attendees can make sense of the appropriate options in this rapidly evolving landscape.
Attendees will leave the session with an understanding of the canvas, experience of use-cases, and access to the templates in the Miroverse to use in their own contexts.
Note - This workshop is designed to run using Miro and a version of the Canvas from the Miroverse. However it can be run using paper and postit versions.
Team Performance Evolution with AI Agents
We are always striving to achieve greater impact with our teams. Self-organising teams are at the heart of the success of Agile approaches - however we often fail to fully empower and support the growth of teams as they adopt, adapt, and accelerate their agile team delivery practices.
Agile metrics and measures can get a lot of attention as teams evolve. Some of this attention is progressive (e.g. Team health, psychological safety, value delivery etc.) and some this attention is controlling / negative (e.g. Micro-management, individual review metrics etc).
AI agents in the Agile Delivery space have added a new dimension to the evolution of our team performance. AI agents can now support a range of capacity increasing activities (e.g. automation of data analysis, desktop task automation) and at the same time also enhance capability (e.g. real time personalised coaching, deep research agents) so that we can further evolve team performance into the AI age.
Team performance measures should be created by the team, for the use of the team, and not as a management lever. Teams need to be empowered to shape what they need in context to their current evolutionary status and AI adoption.
During this session we look at five main areas of focus through which team performance can evolve and accelerate towards the delivery of real business impact :-
> Team Traits - Connect with the subjective measures that bind teams together
> Team Measures - Decide on the objective measures to track team performance
> Business Agility Measures - Guide the operational changes required to create the right environment
> Business Impact - Deliver the desired outcomes from the team performance.
> AI Agents Interaction - Set the balance of human led and AI enabled activities
Agile Slovenia
The Convergence - How AI is changing Agile Roles, Teams, and Practices
Lean Agile Scotland - 2025
'The Convergence' - How AI is changing our ways of working
Booking.com Product Management Confernce
'The Convergence' - How AI is changing our ways of working
Booking.com Product Management Conference
The AI Strategy Canvas
Agile2025 Sessionize Event
Web Summer Camp 2025 Sessionize Event
Agile Manchester 2025
The Convergence: How AI is changing agile roles, teams and practices
Global Scrum Gathering - 2025
The Product Confidence Trap
Agile in the City - Bristol - 2024
The Convergence - How AI is changing Agile Delivery
Miro Canvas 24 - Amsterdam
The Convergence - How to shape your organisations AI strategy
Agile-Lean Ireland - 2024
The Convergence - How AI is changing Agile Delivery
Agile On The Beach 2024 Sessionize Event
Global Scrum Gathering - 2024
How Working Effectively With Finance Can Accelerate Your Journey to Business Agility
ScanAgile24 Sessionize Event
Lean Agile Scotland
The Product Confidence Trap
Agile Bristol and Bath
How working effectively with Finance can accelerate your journey to Business Agility
XP2023 Amsterdam
Team Performance Evolution - Self-organised team improvement patterns
ACE!2023
The Product Confidence Trap
Agile on the Beach - 2022
How working effectively with Finance can accelerate your journey to Business Agility
Stuart Munton
CIO - Chief for Group Operations and Technology AND Scrum Half @ AND Digital
Reading, United Kingdom
Links
Actions
Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers. If you suspect this profile to be fake or spam, please let us know.
Jump to top