Season 3
Why Faster Isn't Better with Dave West
Don't abandon Agile for AI. The real bottleneck isn't speed of delivery, it's organizational decision-making and clarity about value. Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, warns that organizations adopting AI are making a critical mistake. They're abandoning foundational Agile practices, sprint planning, dai...
What Happened to the Scrum Master Role?
The Scrum Master role hasn't disappeared. It's been diluted, pushed outside the organization, or absorbed into everyone's job description. Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock dig into what's actually happened to the Scrum Master and agile coach role as AI reshapes how teams work. They trace how a role ...
What Your AI Token Spend Is Actually Buying
AI vendors are shifting from flat-fee pricing to consumption-based billing, and most organizations have no idea what their token spend is actually producing. Dave Sharrock and Peter Maddison break down what's driving the shift to AI token economics, why the old "$20 per user" budget model is breakin...
Why AI Agents Need Room to Fail Before They Learn
Giving an AI agent real autonomy means accepting it will fail early and often before it gets good, the same curve organizations hit during any real change. Peter Maddison brings a stuck OAuth problem to the table: an AI agent that kept going in circles and couldn't find its way through. That leads i...
AI Coding Speed Isn't Agile's Real Bottleneck
AI can write code faster than ever, but Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock argue that coding was never the actual bottleneck in software delivery. In this conversation about AI software delivery, Peter and Dave dig into why faster coding hasn't solved the two problems that always mattered: knowing whe...