Alle Episoden

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 Alison McCauley, author, speaker, and change management strategist who has been working in AI since 2010.

Organizations are spending 93% of their AI investment on technology and only 7% on helping people actually use it, the same mistake made in every prior tech wave, from CRM to cloud. Allison draws on her early career pioneering one of the first enterprise CRM rollouts to show that the lesson has never changed: meet people where they are and show them value...

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...

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 Peter Vollmer, one of the leading voices in Value Stream Thinking and enterprise flow optimization.

Peter explains why many organizations still optimize silos instead of value streams and how that creates hidden bottlenecks, long feedback loops, and quality issues. Instead of only measuring outcomes at the end of delivery pipelines, Value Stream Thinking focuses on identifying waste and constraints directly at integration points.

In the conversation, Peter shares the four perspectives of Value Stream Thinking: enterprise view, domain view,...