Ep. 34 The Human Side of AI in Software Teams

How do real teams adopt AI without losing their people, product focus or ethics? In this Easy Agile Podcast episode, Henrik Kniberg joins Tenille Hoppo to unpack practical AI for product development and engineering. We cover building an AI-ready culture, safe experimentation, curing the code review bottleneck, shrinking the maker-to-user gap and what the next few years of Agile look like with AI in the loop.

What you will learn

• How leaders enable safe AI use and stop shadow AI
• Practical ways teams experiment with AI tools like Cursor and Claude
• Keeping code quality and clean architecture while shipping faster
• Smarter code review workflows with AI support
• Product owners moving from backlog items to small pull requests
• Ethics in practice, including bias and data privacy
• Smaller teams, continuous delivery and the shift from sprints to flow

About the guest
Henrik Kniberg is co-founder & Chief Scientist at Abundly AI (rebranded from Ymnig AI in 2025), where he helps teams use generative AI to build better products, faster. He previously coached at Spotify and LEGO and co-created the widely shared Spotify engineering culture materials. A former Mojang (Minecraft) developer, Henrik also co-founded Hups and GoClimate. He served on the Agile Alliance board and authored Scrum and XP from the Trenches, Kanban & Scrum, and Lean from the Trenches.

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