What happens to Product Owners and Scrum Masters when organizations move toward empowered product teams — while AI is radically changing how products are built?
In this Café Talk, Bastiaan and Robert explore how the Product Operating Model and LeSS fit together, and what that means in practice for roles, teams and organizational design.
What you’ll get out of this conversation
- Why one product with multiple teams should have one Product Backlog and one Product Owner
- What former team-level Product Owners can contribute inside empowered product teams
- Why Scrum Masters are under increasing pressure — and whether AI could replace them
- How Scrum Masters can use AI to create better feedback loops instead of simply automating meetings and processes
- Why accelerating development with AI can actually make a badly designed organization worse, faster
- Why organizational design may become one of the most important skills for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
- What Scrum Masters should start learning to stay relevant
- A practical first experiment for leaders who want to combine the Product Operating Model with LeSS
One of the central ideas: AI can dramatically accelerate product development, but if your organization is full of silos, handovers and bottlenecks, AI may simply accelerate those problems as well.
