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Hosted by Alex Birke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbirke/), live from the SAFe & AI Summit 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of Agile Amped features Darren Wilmhurst, Managing Director for Europe at Cprime, SAFe SPCT, and author of the SAFe Coach's Handbook.

Every organization Darren works with shares the same pattern: more demand than capacity, prioritization driven by opinion rather than economics, and a strategy that can't be connected to execution. None of this is new but the AI gold rush is flooding an already overloaded demand funnel with a wave of new initiatives that are often started bottom-up, without governance, guardrails, or any...

Hosted by Alex Birke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbirke/), live from the SAFe & AI Summit 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of Agile Amped features Saahil Panickar, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and Zack Brown, Partner Solution Strategist at Atlassian.

AI is a force multiplier and that's exactly the problem. It amplifies the current state of your organization, including its dysfunction. Companies with poor data quality, inconsistent tooling hygiene, or undisciplined processes will find that AI makes those problems significantly worse, not better. As Saahil puts it: garbage in, garbage out, just faster and at scale.

Zack adds the practitioner perspective from Atlassian: successful AI...

Hosted by Renaud Granier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaud-granier/), live from the SAFe & AI Summit 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of Agile Amped features Dr. Wolfgang Brandhuber, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and one of the foremost authorities on large solution delivery within the Scaled Agile Framework.

Wolfgang opens with a foundational reframe agility is not a methodology it is the act of building and sustaining collaboration networks. Every agile framework, from Scrum to SAFe, is orchestrating the same six properties: mutual knowledge, transparency of contribution, freedom to roam, a shared definition of success, end-to-end autonomous delivery, and psychological safety. Remove any one of...

Hosted by Renaud Granier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaud-granier/), live from the SAFe & AI Summit
2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of Agile Amped features Luke Homann, SAFe Fellow and architect of the Lean Portfolio Management competency.

Luke explains how portfolio investment decisions hinge on three dimensions of value customer, organizational, and cost and how SAFe's investment horizons (zero through three) help executive teams balance short-term returns with long-term strategic bets. The often-overlooked Horizon Zero covers the intentional decommissioning of legacy systems that can't simply be switched off.

At the heart of the conversation is participatory budgeting not just as a funding mechanism, but...