Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

BONUS: How Scrum Masters Turn AI Into a Thinking Partner, Not a Magic Answer Box Everybody talks about AI in theory. In this BONUS episode, Dave Westgarth talks about it in practice — the boring, everyday ways a Scrum Master and Agile Coach actually puts AI to work. From t-shirt sizing to sprint reports to a self-coded Monte Carlo forecaster, Dave shares what works, what doesn't, and the one mindset shift that separates people who get value from AI from those who just generate more noise. From "Magic Answer Box" to Personalised Partner "Instead of taking it as a magic answer box, using it as a personalised partner to work through problems, look at your ideas, and really hold them in the cold light of day before proposing things."   Dave came into agile from a development background, moved through project delivery, and had already worked at AI and ML companies long before ChatGPT made the technology personal and accessible. Like most people, he first met these tools as a "magic answer box" — ask a qu