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. We are at a pivotal moment where AI Transformations become the focal point, surpassing the current realms of Agile and Digital Transformation strategic approaches. Shaping and defining the strategy of how you will engage with new AI practices and evolve the use of AI tooling is fundamentally important to help you keep ahead in this rapidly evolving world.

The interactive session introduces the ‘AI Strategy Canvas’ that uses traditional canvas techniques and AI augmentation to guide users to shape AI strategy.

The strategy shaped using the ‘AI Strategy Canvas’ 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.

During the session the canvas will be introduced using clear examples to ensure that the practice is understood. We will touch on the wide range of AI approaches that are currently available and how attendees might be able to make sense of the appropriate options in this rapidly evolving landscape.

AI strategy is not a ‘one-size fits all approach’, however indecision is increasing the risk of non-AI augmented individuals, teams, and organisation being left behind.

Attendees will leave the session with an understanding of the canvas, an overview of worked use cases, and access to the online source canvas templates so they can use them 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.

Agile 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 etc).

The introduction of AI agents into the Agile Delivery space has added a new dimension to the approach we take to evolve our performance. AI agents can now support a range of capacity increasing activities (e.g. automation of data analysis) and at the same time also enhance capability (e.g. real time personalised coaching) so that we can further evolve our team performance.

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.

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