Season 3

AI agents will tell you everything works. Here is how to validate AI output when the mistakes are ones no human would ever make. Peter and Dave compare notes from building software, training material, and presentations with AI. The problems they keep running into are strange ones: the wrong database...

Giving AI agents names and a spot on the org chart makes people feel less accountable for the work, and it squeezes the agent into a role it doesn't need. Dave Sharrock and Peter Maddison dig into new research from the September/October 2026 issue of Harvard Business Review on what happens when orga...

AI speeds up building. It doesn't speed up deciding. The real bottleneck has moved to management, and organizations don't see it yet. In this episode, Peter and Dave talk with Bernie Maloney about why AI adoption is exposing a critical gap in organizational leadership. AI is accelerating delivery an...

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...

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 ...