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So what does it take to combine Agile and AI well?
**1) Strong fundamentals to create clarity**
Know the customer problem you are solving, the outcome you want and what you are not doing right now.
**2) Tight feedback loops to turn effort into learning**
Short cycles, real signals and a willingness to change the plan based on what you learn.
**3) AI used as an assistant to the loop, not a substitute for judgment**
Use it to draft, explore options, pressure test and accelerate analysis. Keep the decision making with the team.
If you want a simple practice you can try this week, use these four questions in your next planning or discovery conversation:
• What are we trying to learn in the next 5 days?
• What is the smallest test that could teach us that?
• What did we expect to see, and what did we actually see?
• What will we change based on what we learned?
That is Agile. It is a learning system. AI just raises the stakes, and raises the upside, for doing it well.
A Practical Way to Learn Faster This Week
Jeff & Josh | Sense & Respond Learning
Often, in his work advising companies on the Lean Startup methodology, he meets executives at large enterprises who want to kill small experiments—saplings in this analogy—because they don’t yet “move the needle,” meaning they’re not generating, say, $100 million in revenue, enough to make a difference for the business. They’re not yet giant trees. Eric points out, sure, the experiment is not yet generating that level of revenue, but it’s impossible to know which new experiments will be the next big $100 million line of business. “If you knew which ideas would be hits, of course you’d only do those. But of course, nobody knows ahead of time, so you have to be willing to plant a lot of seeds and watch them grow.” When they start to sprout, don’t step on them, citing how small they are. Rather, water them and give them sunlight. Or, in corporate-speak, invest more.
Ask Your Developer
Jeff Lawson
Principle: Minimize Waste The first principle in product discovery is to try to solve the problem with a minimum amount of wasted time and effort. This is why product discovery is the key to accelerated time to money.
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