AI Essentials for Agile Practitioners

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About This Course

AI tools are becoming part of everyday working life for people in delivery, analysis, and management roles. But the gap between using AI tools and understanding what they actually do - and where they fail - is wide and growing. This course is designed to close that gap.

A one-day course for agile practitioners who want a grounded, honest picture of how AI works, what it is good for, and what to be careful about. It draws on the frameworks in AI Snake Oil (Narayanan and Kapoor) and a Human-First approach to AI, and applies them directly to the work of agile teams.

This is not a tools tutorial. It is a thinking course. You will leave with a clearer mental model of AI, better judgment about when and how to use it, and a practical lens for evaluating AI claims in your organisation.

What You'll Learn

✓Distinguish between different types of AI systems - predictive, generative, and analytical - and explain the key differences in how they work and where they fail

✓Explain the concept of AI Snake Oil and describe the common patterns of overpromising that appear in AI product claims

✓Apply a Human-First lens to AI tool adoption, identifying where human judgment should remain central and where AI assistance adds genuine value

✓Describe how large language models work at a conceptual level, including hallucination, context limits, and the implications for reliability

✓Evaluate AI tool proposals and vendor claims using a structured critical framework

✓Identify practical use cases for AI in agile delivery, analysis, and facilitation work, and describe the conditions under which they are likely to be effective

Why This Course

Honest and grounded - no hype, no dismissiveness, just useful thinking

Directly relevant to the work of agile practitioners, not generic AI literacy

Draws on serious AI critique including Narayanan and Kapoor

Delivered personally by Alun - small group, full attention, genuine discussion

Who Is This For

Agile practitioners - Scrum Masters, Product Owners, business analysts, delivery managers, and coaches - who want to think more clearly about AI and how it intersects with their work.

Prerequisites

None - no technical background is required. Curiosity and a healthy scepticism are the only prerequisites.

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