Invited Speaker
Sanjit Bhattacharya
Vice President (Head of Transformation)
Title: Proof, not just a Promise: How AI is helping teams 10x their sprints.
Session Abstract:
Are you tired of a new AI POC every week, or may be every day?
Everyone claiming, ”Use my product and you would be the best?‚”
Budgeting issues and lack of genuine help is stalling you and you are feeling left behind in the AI race?
Trust me, if any of the above situations seem familiar, you are not alone.
Welcome to the AI Hacks for Scrum Teams.
While most of the teams spend time talking about their work than really doing it. What if I say that AI could give you 30% of your sprint back? And when I say this, I mean 30%. No tricks, no trials, no lengthy processes. Just smart AI implementation.
This is not about replacing Agile practitioners with AI. It is a talk about giving them back time ‚” well, the most scare resource now-a-days.
Through my 2 decades of experience in transforming organizations across aviation, banks, telcos and government clients globally, I have decoded something which I love to call the ‚Smartest AI Hacks‚ to 10x your team’s productivity almost instantly.
The Problem Worth Solving:
Majority of the Scrum Teams are not struggling with best practices of Scrum or their implementation. They are struggling with the overhead of running Scrum, that’s invisibly killing them: Poorly written stories leading to lengthy dragging refinement sessions, retrospectives that surface the same old challenges and issues as the last three times, sprint reviews that require hours or even days to prepare and updates from various stakeholder that are super tricky to capture due to the immense cognitive load.
This talk names that overhead ‚the Sprint Tax‚ and shows exactly where lightweight AI acts as a force multiplier, and not as a replacement.
Top three takeaways:
1. Walk Away with 5 Read-to-Use detailed structured AI Prompts (Curated prompt card for retros, story writing, stakeholder updates, and DoD checks) ‚ usable immediately from your next sprint.
2. See the ROI of Micro-AI in under 10 minutes (Live demo showing real benefits I have seen teams achieve)
3. Learn What NOT to Handover to AI (and why) ‚ An agile practitioner‚ honest guide to where AI fails in Agile ‚so that you don’t end up using AI blindly or as a plug-and-play everywhere. Simply put, protecting the ‚HI (Human Intelligence) of Scrum
Target Audience: Transformation Coaches, AI-Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters
About the Speaker
As Vice President at Xebia, Sanjit leads a $11M+ Center of Excellence with over 110 team members, driving transformation initiatives across EdTech, Telecom, Aviation, Banking, and Retail. He lead Ethical AI and AI Governance consulting and he focused on curating AI-native product ideation platforms, AI Native Ways of Working for Transforming teams in the AI Era. Thus, reducing discovery timelines and costs, and enabling a 16% annual revenue growth through account expansion and operational efficiency.
