Mary Iqbal

In a recent class, we were discussing how teams are using AI and finishing coding faster but still missing Sprint Goals. How can these things both be true? That question gets to the heart of a shift many Scrum Teams are experiencing right now. AI has changed the bottleneck. Coding is no longer the constraint it once was. Yet many teams respond by increasing work in progress instead of reducing it. The thinking goes: “We can handle more work now, so let’s pull more in.” The result is pretty...

AI is making it easier—and faster—to build things. But according to Sagar Awate, that makes one question more important than ever: Are we building the right things? At Scrum Day Madison, Sagar will present “AI Product Builder: Own the Outcome, Not Just the Backlog.” He'll explore how AI can help product professionals move beyond managing requirements and backlogs toward greater ownership of the entire journey—from discovery to measurable business outcomes. As Sagar puts it, “AI itself is not...

As a Scrum Master, most of us want to help. But sometimes we think we are helping when we’re actually hurting the team.