How can we leverage GenAI to help us build better products? Operate more efficiently? Close more deals? Reduce customer churn?

A Company’s GenAI transformation is a classic example of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – and the need to try things out, inspect, and adapt, by multi-disciplinary teams.

In other words, it’s the classic use case for an agile, product-oriented approach.

Not for building a Product.

But for building/evolving your Company.

Instead of spraying and praying GenAI all over the place…

Identify the jobs to be done, functions, and key processes that are constraining the company.

Apply some good old process improvement (don’t worry about GenAI yet)

Once you stabilize a process that makes sense – THEN consider how GenAI can help minimize the effort.

Example?

Might seem meta – but can GenAI help make agile/Scrum more efficient?

Start by looking at your agile ways of working and eliminating some waste (e.g. spend less time tasking and estimating and more time delivering… ). Don’t worry about how GenAI can improve estimates. Start by making sure you need sprint-level estimates to begin with.

Let’s say you decide to move to smaller behavior/example-driven stories. After you try that for a bit, you can see if GenAI can help slice into these smaller bits.

Can GenAI help craft / grade OKRs? Sure, but I’d suggest first making sure to fix your OKRs before you start relying on GenAI. Otherwise you might save some time on creating them, but stay stuck with the same antipatterns.

Yours,

Yuval “Let’s Leverage Agile for Your GenAI Transformation” Yeret