Agile has long promised greater speed, and lower risk. But organizational processes limited the scope of what one truly agile team could accomplish. But imagine what a truly agile AI-assisted team could do! The emergence of agentic AI has changed software development forever. But some teams are seeing rapid productivity gains, while others see almost no benefit (not unlike the adoption of Agile). It turns out many of the core principles of Agile make the difference for effective or ineffective application of AI. Join this session to learn about the foundational context your team needs to create to allow effective AI development. You'll see how to bridge your working knowledge of Agile with the new critical feedback loop your team needs to master. We'll discuss some common concerns, and how to use the principles of agility to mitigate them.

No, Agile isn’t dead...but the era of big “Agile Transformations” is OVER. After years of over-hyped promises and underwhelming results, many organizations have scaled back or outright rejected Agile, cutting roles like Scrum Master and Agile Coach along the way. Welcome to Agile’s Post-Transformation Era—a time to move beyond frameworks (important, but not what makes us Agile) toward a more grounded, resilient people-centered approach to agility…and future-proof yourself, and your organization, to thrive in the face of AI-fueled volatility, ambiguity, and complexity. This session will:

• Uncover the Root Causes behind the decline of Agile Transformations
• Explore what Agile’s post-transformation era means for us as practitioners and community.
• Re-frame Agility, and our role in shaping and enabling it, shifting from frameworks to strengthening our organization’s continuous-improvement muscle.
• Gain practical re-tooling strategies for navigating today’s evolving Agile landscape and the rapidly accelerating AI era, with clarity and a renewed sense of purpose.

Agile teams often rely on retrospectives to learn from problems after they’ve already occurred. But what if teams could practice responding to likely challenges before delivery gets disrupted? This interactive session adapts a well-established practice from security and disaster recoverytabletop exercises and applies it to Agile team delivery and performance. Instead of breaches or outages, teams role-play realistic delivery scenarios such as mid-sprint executive requests, unexpected dependency failures, shifting priorities, or capacity disruptions. After a brief introduction, participants will experience a live mini-tabletop exercise and then work in small groups to run scenarios themselves. These exercises consistently reveal surprising weak spots in communication, decision-making, and team norms—creating opportunities to strengthen them proactively. Attendees will leave equipped to run their own tabletop exercises and respond to delivery challenges with clarity and confidence.