Agile. Lean. Ai.
Leaning into Agile Ai: Transforming Ceremonies, Standard Work & Telemetry with Agentics
A modern field guide for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Ai delivery enablement teams who want Agile Ai projects to stick at scale. Learn how to convert ceremonies into standard work, instrument the system with practical telemetry, and use agentics to remove busywork without losing the human nuance.
Written for experienced delivery pros who need to become Ai-ready fast-without hype, and without pretending they've had "7+ years of Ai" in a 3-year market.
Built for real delivery teams:
Sound Familiar?
These are the problems this quide solves...without Agile theater.
"We're doing Agile, but nothing's changed."
Standups, sprints, retrospectives..but delivery is still slow, quality is noisy, and morale is slipping.
"Our metrics are green...but the product is red."
Velocity looks great while defects, rework, and churn quietly rise underneath the dashboard.
"Leadership wants Agile speed with waterfall certAinty."
Wrong incentives. Wrong questions. And teams get punished for telling the truth.
"We adopted a scaling framework and got slower."
More meetings, more artifacts, more coordination debates-less time delivering value.
"Transformation worked - then decayed."
Six months later the org reverts to old habits because nobody owned the operating system.
"We don't know what to measure."
Burndowns don't tell you if you're improving-telemetry does.
Ai-Ready Delivery Leadership
Hiring expectations jumped to "7+ years of Ai" overnight. This book shows experienced delivery leaders how to ramp up fast: agent-assisted workflows, telemetry guardrAils, and practical patterns that convert Agile/Lean experience into modern, credible Ai-enabled delivery.
What You'll Learn
Practical patterns you can apply Monday morning - plus the deeper mechanics behind why they work.
The Hidden Mechanics
Measurement debt, governance debt, decision latent silent forces that turn Agile into AgileFall.
Telemetry That Tells the Truth
Flow efficiency, leading indicators, and signals that predict drift before delivery breaks.
Standard Work for Ceremonies
Turn standups, planning, reviews, and retros into reusable playbooks - not performative meetings.
Agentics Without Losing the Human
Mode B workflows: draft with Ai and approve with humans, so nuance stays human-owned.
Stories as Schemas
Write work so agents can execute deterministically: clear inputs, constrAints, outputs, and checks.
Scaling Frameworks, Compared
Scrum@Scale, SAFe, LeSS, Spotify what fits your context and what to avoid.
Foundation & Strategy
- The AgiLean Foundation
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Understanding Methodologies
- Launching Your Transformation
- Lean Principles in Practice
Execution & Tools
- Common Pitfalls & Antipatterns
- Tools & Techniques
- Value Stream Optimization
- Lean Metrics for Agile Teams
- Cultivating Agile Leadership
Advanced Topics
- Standard Work - The Hidden Foundation
- Telemetry vs Vanity Metrics
- Ai-Enhanced Agile Practices
- Scaling Frameworks Deep Dive
- Decision Latency Solutions
- Flow Efficiency Mastery
Finally an Agile book that tells the truth about metrics. We stopped gaming velocity and started improving flow.
The drift/entropy framing was exactly what our transformation was missing. The playbooks made it stick.
Practical enough to use Monday morning, deep enough to reference for years. The schema examples are gold.
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- Full eBook: Leaning into Agile Ai
- Templates: DoR / DoD / DoAR
- Scaling + telemetry patterns you can apply Monday morning
- Mode B workflows: Draft ⇒ Approve with agentics
- ISBN: 978-0-9847523-1-7
- Pages: 300+
- Pricing: $1.99 per chapter or $16.99 for the full eBook (16 chapters).
- Bonus: Lifetime eBook + audio updates—free.