The Agile Mentors Podcast is taking a short summer break, but that does not mean the conversation is stopping. In this special update, Brian shares what is ahead for the show and introduces a new podcast exploring one of the biggest questions facing modern teams: what happens when AI becomes part of how work gets done?

Overview

As the Agile Mentors Podcast pauses new episodes for the summer, Brian takes a few minutes to reflect on what this community has explored together over the years. While Scrum, Agile, product ownership, leadership, and coaching have been recurring topics, the deeper theme has always been people: how teams learn, collaborate, make decisions, and improve over time.

Brian also shares details about his new podcast, People Over Prompts, which will focus on the changing relationship between humans and AI at work. As AI moves beyond being a simple tool and becomes a more active collaborator, organizations are being challenged to rethink team structures, workflows, accountability, and decision-making. What does a team look like when every person is supported by multiple AI agents? What responsibilities should remain firmly human? And how do we preserve judgment, creativity, and shared understanding in an AI-enabled workplace? This episode offers a preview of those conversations while looking ahead to what comes next for both podcasts.

References and resources mentioned in the show:

People Over Prompts podcast
#82: The Intersection of AI and Agile with Emilia Breton
#175: When AI Makes Agile Teams Worse with Hunter Hillegas
AI Doesn’t Eliminate Agile Teams — It Increases the Need for Great Ones by Mike Cohn
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Brian Milner is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, Certified Scrum Professional®, Certified ScrumMaster®, and Certified Scrum Product Owner®, and host of the Agile Mentors Podcast training at Mountain Goat Software. He's passionate about making a difference in people's day-to-day work, influenced by his own experience of transitioning to Scrum and seeing improvements in work/life balance, honesty, respect, and the quality of work.

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Brian Milner (00:00) Welcome in to the Agile Mentors Podcast. I'm with you as always here, Brian Milner. And today, this episode's gonna be a little different. No guests today, just me here with you for a few minutes with a quick update about this show and what is coming up with it. As we head into summer, the Agile Mentors podcast is going to take a break from new episodes for a while.

Yes, we're going on vacation. Just just like a lot of you. We don't have a specific return date yet to announce, but the plan is to keep this feed active. So please stay subscribed when new episodes are ready. You'll be the first to hear about them right here. And if you're newer to the show and just found us not long ago, this is also a really great time for you to go back through some of the past episodes.

There's a lot of conversations there with some really smart people talking about things like Scrum and Agile, coaching, product ownership, leadership, facilitation, ⁓ team dynamics, and the everyday challenges of of helping people work better together. That has always been one of my

Favorite parts of this podcast. Yes, we talk about Scrum and and yes, we talk about Agile, but underneath all of that we are are usually talking about people. How people learn, how people make decisions, how teams improve over time, how leaders create space for better outcomes, and how we keep coming back.

To the core idea that Agile is not a process. It's really a different way of working together. So, while we're on the summer break, I hope you will stay subscribed and keep this podcast in your rotation. I also want to mention something exciting and new that I am working on.

I'm starting a brand new podcast called People Over Prompts. Now, don't let that title fool you in any way. It's it's not an anti-AI podcast in any way. And I want to be clear that it's not a replacement in any way for the Agile Mentors podcast. It's a separate show and it has a different focus. People over prompts is

Going to look at the human side of work in this AI era. And one of the big questions that I want to explore through it is what is a team now? For years, especially in this agile community, we've we've had a pretty familiar picture in our heads of what a team looks like. Maybe it's that eight to ten people, cross-functional.

Working together, shared responsibility, learning how to plan and build, test, deliver, and of course improve over time, get better together. But AI is starting to change that picture. A team might not always look like eight to ten people anymore. It it might just be two or three people.

But each of those two or three people has their own bench of AI agents. One person might have an AI agent that's helping helping them do research. Another might have one that's helping with testing. Another might have one that's helping with code, product discovery, backlog refinement, documentation, analysis, all the things we do now.

And you know I'm that that may have come off wrong. It's not that each one of these people only have one agent. Right? They probably have multiple agents that are are running at the same time. So sort of many teams within a team. That changes things. It changes how we think about requirements. It changes how we verify the work. Changes how we test.

It changes how we make decisions. It changes who or what is doing parts of the work. And and I think it also at a deeper level changes the team dynamic that many of us have been working with for the past ten, twenty years. If AI is a member of our team now, right, they're

joining the team just like anyone else, even if it's in a limited way, then we need to rethink some of our practices. We need to look for new workflows and think about new team agreements. Maybe there's even new frameworks on the horizon for how human beings and AI work together.

On the same team.

That's a conversation that I am very interested in. Not just which AI tool is the newest or you know what what prompting trick I can I can put in play this week, but how the work itself changes when AI starts acting less like a tool that's sitting on the sideline.

And more like a full collaborator in the flow of work.

We have to ask questions like where should AI help and where should humans stay firmly in the loop? How do we keep judgment and creativity, accountability, and shared understanding in the hands of humans, of people? And how do teams adapt when some of their team members are no longer human?

That's the space I want to explore with this new podcast, People Over Prompts. So if that sounds interesting to you, then I'd really love for you to be a part of it. I really love for you to join it and come along with us on this journey. You can find out more about this new podcast at my website agilityvolves.com slash podcast.

Again, that's agility evolved.com slash podcast. And we'll put the link to that in our show notes in this episode as well. So you don't have to scramble and write that down. Just come back and find our episode and you'll find that link. But again, I can't stress this enough. Please stay subscribed here to the Agile Mentor Mentors podcast as well. I don't want you to miss out on the things here. We're taking a break from new episodes for now, but this feed is staying right where it is. And

When there's more to share here, you'll be the first to find out about it right here. In the meantime, I just want to say thank you for listening. Thank you for being a part of this community and building what we have built here up to this point. And thank you for caring about really creating a better way of working together. This is Brian Milner, and you have been listening to the Agile.

Mentors podcast.