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AI+ for Agile Teams

Sprint Faster with AI in Your Workflow

Sprints that move. Ceremonies that don't drag.

Your team's ceremonies eat time and produce thinner output than they should. This book gives you a practical, ceremony-by-ceremony map of where AI accelerates agile work — with 36 copy-ready prompts for user stories, sprint planning, retrospectives, metrics, and sprint reporting. Run a backlog refinement in half the time. Draft a stakeholder sprint briefing in 20 minutes. Built by an AI engineering firm that works in agile environments every day.

Tier
Tier 3 · Job Skills
Category
Business Operations
Format
Guide
Updated
Q2 2026
Inside
  • 36 ready-made, market-tested prompts: user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint planning briefs, retrospective preparation, metrics narratives, sprint reports
  • A ceremony-by-ceremony AI map — backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews, stakeholder reporting
  • A user story workflow that turns ambiguous backlog items into ready-to-pull stories with acceptance criteria
  • A retrospective preparation discipline that breaks the loop of repeated themes producing no change
  • A 30-day plan for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers, Engineering Managers, and Agile Coaches
Who this is for

Any member of an agile team — Scrum Master, Product Owner, developer, tester, designer, or analyst — working in a team that uses any agile or iterative method (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or hybrid). Cross-industry: this skill is used in software development, marketing, finance, healthcare IT, government digital services, consulting, and any context where iterative teamwork governs delivery.

Also for:Team leads, Engineering Managers, and Agile Coaches who want to understand where AI fits in their coaching practice and how to help their teams adopt it without disrupting agile principles. Programme Managers overseeing multiple agile teams who need a shared vocabulary for AI-assisted ways of working.

You’ll be able to
  • Apply AI to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and definition-of-done statements that reduce ambiguity and speed up backlog refinement
  • Use structured AI prompting to support sprint planning, capacity assessment, and sprint goal articulation
  • Facilitate more effective agile ceremonies — including retrospectives — using AI for preparation, analysis, and documentation
  • Interpret team metrics and flow data with AI to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities
  • Apply the AI Safety Checklist to protect team and project data when using AI in agile contexts
What’s inside
Diagnostic
How AI-ready is your agile practice?
Chapter 1
AI in Agile Teams Right Now
Chapter 2
AI and Agile
Chapter 3
Building a Better Backlog
Chapter 4
Sprint Planning with AI
Chapter 5
Running Ceremonies More Effectively
Chapter 6
Retrospectives and Continuous Improvement
Chapter 7
Measuring What Matters
Chapter 8
Documentation, Reporting, and Handovers
Chapter 9
Culture, Safety, and Ethics in AI-Assisted Teams
Chapter 10
Your 30-Day Agile AI Starter
Back matter
Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference

Built by an AI engineering firm — for agile practitioners who know the human judgement is the work, and want AI to handle what surrounds it.

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