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Generative AI for Agile Teams

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Reduce toil, streamline tasks, and get more work done

Course outcomes

  • Learn how to use GenAI to refine user stories and brainstorm product ideas
  • Acquire techniques for backlog management and prioritization using AI
  • Leverage AI for sprint planning, workload balancing, and risk detection
  • Learn best practices for safely using GenAI tools with company data

Course description

Join expert Jess Brock to unlock the potential of generative AI (GenAI) to supercharge your Agile practices. You’ll proceed through a typical Agile workflow and explore practical ways to incorporate GenAI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to reduce toil, uncover insights, and enhance team performance. You’ll gain actionable prompts and techniques to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives—all while protecting company data and preserving the irreplaceable value of human judgment. You’re encouraged to follow along on your computer to experiment with GenAI tools and apply the prompts in real time.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Identify team health indicators, burnout risks, and workflow slowdowns through daily standup insights
  • Streamline sprint reviews and translate technical changes for stakeholders
  • Enhance retrospectives with sentiment analysis and creative activity generation

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a scrum master or Agile coach who’s looking for AI-driven tools to improve Agile ceremonies and remove team impediments to improve value delivery and flow.
  • You’re a product owner or manager who wants to streamline backlog management, story refinement, and stakeholder communication.
  • You’re a software engineer or developer who wants to reduce manual Agile tasks and improve collaboration with nontechnical stakeholders.

Prerequisites

  • An understanding of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT)
  • Knowledge of the Agile framework
  • Experience working in an Agile team environment

Recommended preparation:

Have login credentials for a GenAI tool (to follow along with the exercises)

Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Introduction (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: Brief overview of GenAI applications in team workflows
  • Group discussion: What area of your team’s workflow has the greatest opportunity for improvement?

Backlog management—planning and refinement (45 minutes)

  • Presentation and demonstration: Creating and refining user stories with AI-generated personas and product strategy in mind
  • Q&A

Standups—identifying and removing blockers (40 minutes)

  • Group discussion: What challenges does your team face in standups?
  • Presentation and demonstration: Simulation of standup with AI-generated insights

Sprint reviews—showcasing progress and gathering feedback (35 minutes)

  • Group discussion: What challenges does your team face in sprint reviews?
  • Presentation and demonstration: Creating sprint review insights and stakeholder-ready presentations
  • Q&A

Retrospectives—continuous improvement with AI (30 minutes)

  • Presentation and demonstration: Identifying trends; team sentiment; generating action items
  • Q&A

Wrap-up and Q&A (15 minutes)

Your Instructor

Jess Brock

Jess Brock is a dynamic coach, technologist, and author who has been involved in developing tech products since the mid-2000s. A former agile skeptic, she was eventually convinced to give it a try in 2011. Her personal transformation was so impactful that she has become deeply involved in the broader agile community. Throughout her career, she has served in many roles: full stack developer, scrum master, product owner, people leader, instructor, and entrepreneur. She believes her diverse career experience strengthens her ability to connect with others empathetically.

Skills covered

  • Generative AI
  • Agile