Are Your Sprints Still Truly Valuable?
byAre sprints still helping teams become more agile, or are they becoming a process that teams follow simply because they always have? And what should teams do instead?

Are sprints still helping teams become more agile, or are they becoming a process that teams follow simply because they always have? And what should teams do instead?
PMI interviewed executives from a range of industries about how AI is changing the way organizations operate and what it means for enterprise agility. Their perspectives reveal how AI expands what agile organizations are capable of achieving.
For years, effort was relatively predictable in story points. AI is starting to change that. That creates an uncomfortable question for agile teams: If story points are meant to represent effort, what happens when effort suddenly becomes harder to define?
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