Scrum.org Community Podcast

Why are forecasts so often late, or short of what was planned? In this live Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer session, Professional Scrum Trainer Ludwig Harsch answers audience questions on estimation and planning for Scrum Teams. He draws on his training and consulting work to explain why estimation should be tested and adapted to each team's context, not treated as a universal rule. Ludwig explains how teams can move from unreliable hour estimates to relative sizing. He discusses when Plann...

Matthew Hodgson, founder of Zen X Machina, joins Dave West to unpack the Raptors project, an experiment that started by accident during digital transformation work and grew into a working model for agentic teams. Hodgson explains how he built a cross-functional AI team, complete with a Scrum Master agent named Al, and what it took to get the agents to self-organize, adapt sprint by sprint, and catch their own mistakes. The conversation digs into why explicit governance files matter more with ...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West sits down with product leadership expert and Author of Untrapping Product Teams, David Pereira, to explore how AI is transforming product delivery. David shares why the shift from estimates to investment matters more than ever, why having the capability to build something doesn't mean you should and how product managers can evolve into true context setters and strategic decision makers. T he conversation covers the difference...

AI is joining teams faster than most organizations have frameworks to support it and that's actually an exciting opportunity, if you approach it thoughtfully. In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Scrum.org COO Eric Naiburg and executive advisor Darrell Fernandes pick up where their popular webinar Managing Your AI Teammate left off, tackling the audience questions that didn't make it into the live session. The conversation draws smart parallels between AI adoption and the clou...

A conversation with Stephan Scholten and Cesario Ramos on transparent salaries, self-organized teams, peer-driven assessment, and what it really takes to design an HR function around people rather than processes. Most organizations claim to put people first. Their HR systems tell a different story. In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West speaks with Stephan Scholten, Director of People and Organization at Visma Roxit and Cesario Ramos, creator of Creating Agile Orga...