Definitely, Maybe Agile
Definitely, Maybe Agile
Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
Why Faster Isn't Better with Dave West
43 minutes Posted Sep 9, 2026 at 3:00 pm.
Welcome And Guest Introductions
Why Scrum Left The Spotlight
Value First In An AI Era
The New Bottlenecks AI Reveals
Agile Theater Meets Real Constraints
What AI First Teams Do Differently
Incentives And The Organization Immune System
When Machines Replace Collaboration
Agentic Teams And Dependency Traps
Trust Guardrails And A Hacked AI Team
Building Useful Personalities Into Agents
Three Takeaways And Closing
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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, daily standups, retrospectives- under the assumption that AI's speed removes the need for those ceremonies. But Dave's seen this pattern repeatedly: when organizations get faster delivery tools...