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[ONLINE] "The pizza party of the future - software teams and product value in the age of coding agents"
This is a special event where Katie Clark & Simon Rohrer will talk about the impact of AI on team organizations.
💬 Abstract
AI will have a huge impact on our software development teams - nobody is sure how exactly, and Simon and Katie don’t have the perfect prediction either!
This is not the first time the way we approach software teams has changed: we’ve gone from silos and super specialization to cross-functional Scrum teams and 2-pizza teams; from T-shaped and M-shaped professionals to full-stack, full-lifecycle, DevSecFin…Ops, value streams, Team Topologies and more. We’ve added all kinds of coaches and then removed them again.
Now that these teams have AI coding agents doing the typing we are seeing “new” (or maybe not so new?) bottlenecks: value questions (domain/product/requirements) and trust questions (quality/testing/reliability/architecture/process). And we’re seeing suggestions from moving down to one-pizza-teams or even just a product owner and their AI wrangler (a one pizza slice team?)
So who is invited to the pizza party of the future? Who makes decisions, who takes responsibility, what new and old roles and skills will be needed? And who is no longer welcome?
We’ll take a look at what some of the friendlier agile critics from the past can tell us. We will see how their takes can help us move to a more value-oriented future with agents and humans collaborating on user needs.
This session is for…
Anyone like us who is trying to make sense of what this AI and agentic coding stuff is going to change about how we work and organize
Anyone who wants to learn from the past and avoid making the same mistakes generations before us have made – but now with added LLMs
Anyone who needs to make decisions about team setup, staffing, upskilling and training, or hiring and recruiting
**🤠 About Katie
