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CortexGovernor™ Course

Scrum with
Agentic AI

Learn how to use autonomous AI agents responsibly inside Scrum — without losing empiricism, accountability, or value delivery.

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Course Details

Duration8 hours · 1 day
FormatVirtual or In-Person
Modules6
Coding requiredNone
Tools includedAgent Bundle
Case studyFastBite
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Overview What You'll Learn Topics Scrum Values Curriculum Who Should Attend

Course Overview

Agents are already in your Sprint. This course makes sure your team knows what they are doing with them — and who is accountable when they are not.

Scrum with Agentic AI is a hands-on course for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, and Developers who want to use AI agents responsibly inside Scrum Teams. Students learn how to design Sprints of hours, coordinate AI agents through an agent harness, run convergence cycles, strengthen the Definition of Done, and produce evidence-backed Increments — without weakening empiricism or team accountability.

The course does not replace Scrum with AI. It shows how Scrum and agents work together: AI compresses the time between hypothesis and evidence; Scrum ensures that evidence leads to learning and adaptation. Used correctly, they reduce the time between idea, evidence and value. Used incorrectly, agents build the wrong thing faster.

"We gave instructions to the agents at the beginning of the Sprint. The Developers were defining the specifications in parallel. We expected everything to come together at the end. It did not."

— Product Owner, Sprint Review, FastBite case study

"The CTO and stakeholders are upset. The tracking screen is missing. The estimated time is wrong. The design looks nothing like what we discussed. What happened?"

— FastBite, Day 14 Sprint Review. Agents built from Day 1 instructions. Nobody inspected the output until today.

"Who was responsible for what the agents built?"

— CTO. Answer: silence. That silence is what this course prevents.

Why this matters now

Gartner 2025

Agentic AI is the #1 strategic technology trend. By 2028, 33% of enterprise software will include autonomous agents — up from less than 1% in 2024.

McKinsey State of AI 2024

65% of organizations regularly use generative AI. Fewer than 30% have governance frameworks for AI outputs.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024

76% of developers use AI tools. 45% say they do not fully trust AI output — yet most have no formal inspection process before it reaches production.

State of Agile Report 2024

No certified course currently addresses how Scrum Teams work with autonomous agents: guardrails, inspection, accountability when agents produce the Increment.

What You Will Learn

Six capability levels — from understanding the vocabulary to orchestrating a multi-agent harness inside a Sprint.

Distinguish between a prompt, an AI tool, an agent, a workflow, and a harness — and explain why the distinction matters for accountability

Explain how Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation apply when autonomous agents are producing the Increment

Use the five Scrum Values as decision guardrails for accepting or rejecting agent output inside a Sprint

Define a Sprint Goal that gives agents direction without prescribing implementation

Assess whether AI-generated output qualifies as an Increment under the team's Definition of Done

Identify accountability boundaries — who owns what, and why "the agent decided" is never an acceptable answer

Give a real agentic AI tool a Sprint Goal with context and constraints, and inspect what it produces

Integrate a pre-built set of specialized agents — UX, coding, testing, security, review — into a coordinated harness inside a Sprint

Topics, Tools and Practices

Every concept includes a real architecture diagram and a FastBite example. Every practice is hands-on, not theoretical.

Core Topics

TopicWhy it matters
Prompt vs. Agent vs. Workflow vs. HarnessMost teams confuse these. Confusing them leads to building the wrong governance for the wrong tool.
Scrum Values as AI guardrailsThe five values are the team's answer to every AI decision inside a Sprint — not abstract principles, but operational filters.
Sprint Goals as agent constraintsAn agent without a Sprint Goal optimizes for output. An agent with a Sprint Goal optimizes for value.
Human-in-the-Loop — bidirectionalNot just approval at the end. Context provider before the cycle + approver after each convergence cycle.
AI-generated evidence vs. verified evidenceOutput is not evidence until a human owns it. Test results, security scans, and agent confidence scores are not evidence.
Agent guardrailsWho defines them, what they contain, what happens when they are missing. Defined by the team, not by the model.
Accountability by Scrum roleProduct Owner, Developers, Scrum Master — each with clear accountability. Agents have none.
Definition of Done for agent-generated workWhat "done" means when an agent built the Increment — including Vibe Coding (Karpathy, 2025) and its risks.

Tools

Bolt.new — browser, no installation, no account
Replit Agent — free account at replit.com
Claude Code — for Developers, shows every agent step
VS Code — inspect and review agent-generated output
Agent Bundle — pre-built specialized agents, included with course

Practices

PracticeDescription
Sprint of hoursRunning a complete Scrum cycle — Planning, convergence cycles, Review, Retrospective — compressed into hours using agents
Convergence cycle designCode Agent ↔ Test Agent ↔ Security Agent loops with defined handoff and inspection points
Guardrail definition workshopTeam exercise to define what agents can and cannot do in their specific context
Human-in-the-Loop mappingIdentifying which decisions require human judgment and which can be delegated
DoD for Agentic AIExamples: human inspection completed at each cycle, security scan passed before handoff, no agent-generated data exposed without review
Vibe Coding analysisWhen describing intent and letting agents generate code is a legitimate accelerator — and when it is a governance failure

Scrum Values and Agentic AI

Each of the five Scrum Values applied to a real AI decision inside a Sprint — with the FastBite scenario, and the failure mode when the value is violated.

Commitment

Sprint Goal beats agent output

When an agent produces something that does not serve the Sprint Goal, the team discards it — even if it took hours to generate.

FastBite: Agent builds real-time turn-by-turn navigation. Impressive. Not in the Sprint Goal. Discarded.

Failure: sunk cost replaces Sprint Goal as the decision criterion.
Courage

Reject output that doesn't meet DoD

The courage to stop a Sprint when AI-generated output passes tests but fails the Definition of Done in a way the tests don't catch.

FastBite: Tracking screen passes all tests. Driver's phone number is visible. "We stop here. This goes back."

Failure: team accepts output that "looks good enough" to avoid the discomfort of an incomplete Sprint.
Focus

Agents suggest continuously — the team filters

Agents generate output beyond the Sprint Backlog. The team's job is to keep agents focused on the Sprint Goal.

FastBite: Agent suggests loyalty points, restaurant rating, promotional banner. All for the backlog. Not this Sprint.

Failure: ten half-finished features and no Increment at Sprint Review.
Openness

Transparent about what the agent decided

The team is always clear about which decisions were made by a human and which were made by an agent.

FastBite Sprint Review: "The tracking screen was built by an agent and reviewed by the team. The privacy constraint was added after the agent's first version."

Failure: "Who decided to use red for the warning?" Nobody knows — the agent decided. The answer is hidden.
Respect

Accountability belongs to a person — always

AI agents assist human judgment. They do not replace it. Accountability for every decision belongs to a person.

FastBite: Agent recommends 15-minute estimate. Developer accepts without checking. 40% of orders are wrong. "The agent suggested it." — "Who accepted it?"

Failure: "The AI did it" replaces "we decided."

Course Curriculum

6 modules · 8 hours · 1 day. Click any module to expand.

01 Scrum, Empiricism and Agentic AI 75 min

FastBite case introduction. What agents are, what they cannot do, and why Scrum is more important — not less — when agents accelerate delivery.

  • The empirical foundation of Scrum: Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation when agents produce the Increment
  • The Product Goal as the constraint that keeps agents aligned
  • Why faster output is not faster value — and why agents can make this worse
  • What Scrum looks like with agents: Sprint of hours diagram
  • What agents cannot do: 6 documented hard limits with real cases
WHAT SCRUM LOOKS LIKE WITH AGENTS ① Value Input (Product Goal, Sprint Goal) │ ② Agent Harness / Orchestrator coordinates UX, Code, Test, Security agents │ ③ AI Convergence Cycles (fast loops inside Sprint) Transparency → Inspection → Adaptation → Increment │ ④ Human in the Loop Product Owner · Developers · Scrum Master · Stakeholders │ Inspectable Increment → Sprint Review → Learning
Hands-on Activity: Give a real agent a Sprint Goal — Round 1 (no context) vs Round 2 (with constraints and guardrails). Compare the results. Debrief: who is accountable for what the agent produced?

Check Questions

  • The Product Owner says "agents don't need events — they just build." Which pillar of empiricism breaks first?
  • A Developer gives an agent a goal with no context. The agent produces a result. Who is accountable?
  • The agent worked two days in the wrong direction. Why is that more costly than a human doing the same?
02 Scrum Values as Guardrails for Agentic AI 75 min

The five Scrum Values applied to real AI decisions inside a Sprint. Each value with a FastBite scenario — what the agent produced, the team's decision, and what happened when the value was applied vs. when it was violated.

  • Commitment: Sprint Goal beats agent output — even when the output is impressive
  • Courage: reject output that doesn't meet DoD, even when it passes all tests
  • Focus: agents suggest continuously — the team decides what enters the Sprint
  • Openness: always transparent about what a human decided vs. what the agent decided
  • Respect: "the agent decided" is never an acceptable answer in a Sprint Review

Check Questions

  • The agent built a feature not in the Sprint Backlog but clearly useful. Which Scrum Value guides the response?
  • A Developer says "the agent decided the layout." Who is accountable for the layout in the Sprint Review?
  • The team ships agent output that doesn't meet the DoD because the Sprint is ending. Which value did they violate?
03 Agentic AI for Scrum Teams — 8 Concepts 75 min

Every concept includes a reflection question, theory, architecture diagram, and FastBite example.

  • Prompt vs. AI Tool vs. Agent vs. Workflow vs. Harness — definitions and accountability implications
  • Agentic AI in product development — the FastBite Sprint with 5 specialized agents
  • Multi-agent collaboration and convergence cycles
  • Human-in-the-Loop — bidirectional: context provider before + approver after
  • AI-generated evidence vs. verified evidence — output is not evidence until a human owns it
  • Agent orchestration and the Harness — full architecture
  • Agent guardrails — defined by the team, enforced by the Harness
  • Agent accountability boundaries by Scrum role
CONVERGENCE CYCLE — FastBite tracking feature ┌─────────────┐ │ Code Agent │ builds feature └──────┬──────┘ │ output v1 ┌──────▼──────┐ │ Test Agent │◄── 47 tests — 3 fail on mobile └──────┬──────┘ │ failures ┌──────▼──────┐ │ Code Agent │◄── fixes failures └──────┬──────┘ │ output v2 ┌──────▼──────┐ │Security Agent│◄── flags driver phone number exposed └──────┬──────┘ │ report ┌──────▼──────┐ │ Code Agent │◄── removes exposure └──────┬──────┘ ✅ All checks pass → Developer inspection

Check Questions

  • The Test Agent reports all tests passed. Is that evidence the Increment is ready for Sprint Review?
  • Who defines the guardrails for agents — the agent, the model provider, or the Scrum Team?
  • When an agent produces output that harms a user, who is accountable?
04 Sprints with Agents — Sprints of Hours 60 min

How to design a Sprint that runs in hours without breaking Scrum. When agents generate output in hours, the Sprint does not become unnecessary — it becomes shorter.

  • A Sprint of hours is still a Sprint: Goal, Planning, Backlog, Increment, DoD, Review, Retro
  • Writing Sprint Goals that give agents direction without prescribing implementation
  • Daily Scrum as a replanning checkpoint in Sprints of hours
  • When Sprints of hours are appropriate — and when they are not
SPRINT OF HOURS — structure Sprint Planning — 20 minutes (human sets goal + constraints) Convergence Cycle 1 — 60 minutes (agents + inspection) Replanning check — 10 minutes (Daily Scrum equivalent) Convergence Cycle 2 — 60 minutes (agents + inspection) Integration + DoD — 30 minutes (human validates) Sprint Review — 30 minutes (stakeholders inspect) Sprint Retrospective — 20 minutes (team learns)
05 Quality and Evidence — Definition of Done for AI 60 min

What "done" means when agents built the Increment. Vibe Coding and its risks. Sprint Review with AI-generated evidence.

  • Definition of Done adapted for agent-generated work — examples: human inspection at each cycle, security scan before handoff, traceability log for every agent action
  • Vibe Coding (Karpathy, 2025) — legitimate productivity accelerator or governance failure?
  • AI-generated evidence packs for Sprint Review — what stakeholders need to see
  • Sprint Retrospective: where did AI increase transparency? Where did it create false confidence?
06 Hands-on: Running the Agent Harness 90 min + assessment

Download the pre-built course agent bundle. Give the harness a Sprint Goal. Run a full convergence cycle — UX Agent → Code Agent → Test Agent → Security Agent. Inspect at each handoff. Deliver an Increment. No coding skills required.

  • Tools: Bolt.new (browser, no installation), Replit Agent, Claude Code (for Developers), VS Code
  • Agent bundle: pre-built set of specialized agents — UX, coding, testing, security, review
  • Full Sprint cycle: Planning → convergence cycles → Sprint Review → Retrospective
  • Final assessment covering all course concepts

Who Should Attend

The entire Scrum Team — not just Developers. No coding skills required.

Scrum Masters Product Owners Developers Agile Coaches Engineering Managers AI Transformation Leaders Digital Product Leaders Consultants

Especially useful for teams already using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Workspace, Cursor, Bolt.new, or Replit Agent — and for any Scrum Team that has asked "who is accountable when the AI built it?" and did not have a clear answer.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Scrum. Recommended but not required: PSM I knowledge, experience with Product Backlogs and Sprint events, basic familiarity with generative AI tools. No programming experience required.

Core Message

Agents are fast. That is not the problem — it is the premise.

An agent without a Sprint Goal builds without purpose. An agent without a Sprint Review builds without feedback. An agent without short inspection cycles builds failures at the speed of machines.

Scrum does not slow agents down. Scrum is what makes their speed safe to use.

AI should reduce the time between idea, evidence and learning — not eliminate the stops that make learning possible.

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One day. Eight hours. The framework your team needs to work with agents without losing accountability.

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