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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
In his article “Searching for the Center of Design,” service design expert Jess McMullin defines value-centered design as follows: Value-centered design starts a story about an ideal interaction between an individual and an organization and the benefits each realizes from that interaction.
Mapping Experiences
James Kalbach
That’s the old way. And it is bonkers. Doing things the old way, it can take six months or more to develop a strategy. The old way is like assembling IKEA furniture by tossing parts, an Allen wrench, and a dozen squirrels into a broom closet, then hoping for the best.
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Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
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