The Gatineau Ottawa Agile Tour is an annual conference in the heart of the nation’s capital, focused on sharing and learning. GOAT has run for 7 years and is part of the Agile Tour that takes place in 90 cities worldwide.
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I hope to see you there.
This is the 5th and last installment in my series about Leading a Team that’s Part Machine. The earlier articles are available here: Introduction to the series and why the future will likely include hybrid human / AI teams What constitutes a real agent and how most current ‘agents’ lack the agency to act Agent frameworks, API tokens and local AI: the infrastructure that runs agents Agentic pipelines and orchestration: getting agents to do meaningful work beyond what GenAI tools can do for us today This article explores how to integrate AI Agents into regular teamwork and their likely impacts on the future of project management. To recap, I started my experiment by building AI agents 6 months ago to
Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2006, I published the first posts on LeadingAnswers.com. That sentence makes me feel old. I started the blog to write about leadership and agile project management, share ideas I was experimenting with, and hopefully connect with other people interested in the same things. At the time, agile was still sufficiently new that explaining it to traditional project managers was a large part of the job. My first real article was called “What has Leadership got to do with Agile Project Management?” My argument was that effective agile project management was much closer to leadership than traditional project management. It emphasized people over tasks, empowerment over control, effectiveness over efficiency, and direction over speed.
